Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53213
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.