Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
512
Points per Word
0.000977
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
A little boy in a war-ravaged country is separated by a wire fence from the streams and hills he used to visit with his father, but he finds hope when he begins to nurture a green shoot found growing in the rubble.