Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33600
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
149
Points per Page
0.033557
Description
Seventeen-year-old Tal of Jerusalem, dejected over the ongoing Arab-Israeli conflict, puts her hopes for peace in a bottle and asks her brother, a military nurse in the Gaza Strip, to toss it into the sea.