Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57820
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
217
Points per Page
0.036866
Description
When teenaged Pia is sent to Hawaii's leprosy settlement on Molokai Island in the 1860s, he chooses anger and self-reliance as his means of survival, but the faithful example of other villagers and one priest threaten to destroy his desire for revenge.