Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42772
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
In 1975 after American troops pull out of Vietnam, a thirteen-year-old boy and his beloved elephant escape into the jungle when the Viet Cong attack his village.