Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27585
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ben Friedman and his family flee Nazi Germany in 1941 hoping to find a better life in America, but when Pearl Harbor is attacked, his friendship with a young Japanese American boy becomes strained.