Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73426
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
291
Points per Page
0.041237
Description
Youssef learns that he is the product of an affair his mother had with a married man and goes in search of his father, who takes him in, gives him a job, and sets him on the path to his dreams, until a reversal of fortune lands him back in the slums.