Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50158
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
247
Points per Page
0.02834
Description
In India in 1941, when her father becomes brain damaged in a non-violent protest march, fifteen-year-old Vidya and her family are forced to move in with her father's extended family and become accustomed to a totally different way of life.