Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34167
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
168
Points per Page
0.029762
Description
When sixteen-year-old Baoliu is wrongfully accused of murdering his stepmother, his father pays someone else to die in his place, leaving Baoliu to fend for himself on the streets of twelfth-century China.