Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Refugee Camp to Harvard
Author: Asgedom, Mawi
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
28127
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
142
Points per Page
0.028169
Description
This autobiography tells how at the age of three, Mawi Asgedom fled civil war in Ethiopia by walking with his mother, brother, and baby sister to a Sudanese refugee camp and later moving to Chicago and earning a full scholarship to Harvard.