Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40837
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
204
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
Twelve-year-old Adam from Australia and Walid from Bangladesh, two expatriates living in a Middle Eastern country, must rely on one another when war breaks out and they find themselves in the desert, both trying to reach the same city with no water.