AR Book Level
5.3
AR Points
5
Word Count
35,528
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
12689 EN
About this book
In mid-nineteenth-century Russia, Mendel Cholinsky, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy, tries to escape to America to avoid being taken into the czar's army for 25 years of military service.