A Faraway Island cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.4
Points 8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 53969
Points per Word 0.000148
Page Count 247
Points per Page 0.032389

Description

In 1939 Sweden, two Jewish sisters wait for their parents to flee the Nazis in Austria. Eight-year-old Nellie settles in quickly, but 12-year-old Stephie feels stranded with a foster mother who is as cold & unforgiving. Book #1