Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39245
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
209
Points per Page
0.028708
Description
Two boys, one white, one black, share a friendship in Kenya in the 1950s. They are friends in the face of the growing Mau Mau rebellion, which threatens British settlers with violence as black Kenyans struggle to win back their land.