Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35528
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.026042
Description
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.