Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.0
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
88323
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
355
Points per Page
0.039437
Description
Ignoring her parents' wishes, as well as the customary place of women in Timbuktu society, twelve-year-old Ayisha joins her twin brother in trying to stop a pair of tourists from stealing an ancient manuscript.