Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45794
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
209
Points per Page
0.033493
Description
A young boy, one of the Tuvan sheepherding people of Mongolia, begins to doubt the traditional belief that the sky is a sheltering force when the communist regime begins to push a program of societal homogenization in the 1940s.