Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63056
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
262
Points per Page
0.034351
Description
A fifteen-year-old Peruvian boy, whose mother runs a clinic for poor village children, becomes caught up in the war after Senderistas bomb the clinic, killing his mother and throwing his family into turmoil.