Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52406
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
275
Points per Page
0.029091
Description
Unlike his reporter father and art-historian mother who find living in the ancient, war-torn country of Balabad endlessly interesting, twelve-year-old Oliver feels out of his element until he gets caught up in a centuries-old mystery.