Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60496
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
311
Points per Page
0.028939
Description
In Bombay in the 1990s during the Hindu-Muslim riots, ten-year-old Chamdi is forced to live on the streets as a beggar. The cruel and violent reality of day-to-day survival for abandoned street children is told in graphic and shocking detail.