Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40005
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
156
Points per Page
0.038462
Description
When the Kosovo hostilities escalate in 1998, 13-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian changes forever. Her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to the U.S.