Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59504
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
249
Points per Page
0.036145
Description
Told in alternating voices, parallel stories are told of thirteen-year-old Rosa, whose mother is trying to adopt a Tanzanian child in England, while in Tanzania, nine-year-old Abela watches her family die and is illegally sent to England to be sold.