Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
3129
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
44
Points per Page
0.011364
Description
Nine-year-old Nat and his family are forced from their home and must march for many days. In the countryside, they are separated from each other and forced to work in the rice fields, where Nat concentrates on survival.