Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39527
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
131
Points per Page
0.045802
Description
Jeff Connors, a sixteen-year-old American boy living in Kuwait, recounts his harrowing escape from the country after the 1990 Iraqi invasion.