Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39968
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
178
Points per Page
0.033708
Description
In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of a flu epidemic. Then in 1986, Nutaaq's great-granddaughter leaves due to a different kind of sickness.