Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34055
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In 1942 after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, twelve-year-old baseball-loving Harry Yakamoto and his family are forced to move to an internment camp, where they must learn to survive in the desert of California under the watch of armed guards.