Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
13555
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
126
Points per Page
0.015873
Description
In Communist China in 1966, eight-year-old Leap Forward learns about freedom while flying kites with his friend and trying to get a caged wild bird to sing and through the music he is learning to play on a bamboo flute. The coauthor is Clare Farrow.