Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.4
Points
15.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
92786
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
366
Points per Page
0.040984
Description
The author, an Indonesian woman, describes the three years she spent, beginning at age twelve, disguised as a boy to avoid becoming a "comfort woman" to Japanese soldiers in a prison camp during World War II.