Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51310
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
238
Points per Page
0.033613
Description
In 1939, fifteen-year-old Thomas sails on a German ship bound for Cuba with more than nine hundred German Jews expecting to be granted safe haven in Cuba. The plot contains sexual references and racial slurs throughout.