Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
33585
Points per Word
0.000179
Page Count
117
Points per Page
0.051282
Description
The author, a Jewish woman who left the Soviet Union for the U.S. with her family in 1979, recalls her childhood in Kiev during the 1960s and 1970s and describes the lives of her parents and grandparents.