Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
31875
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
159
Points per Page
0.031447
Description
London teenager Safia Dirie, who was born in Somalia, finds her life turned upside down when her father, who has been gone for twelve years, returns from war-torn Mogadishu and expects the family to live by his rules.