Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.4
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
77926
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
302
Points per Page
0.039735
Description
Haya Leah Molnar, née Eva Zimmermann, recalls growing up in Bucharest, Romania, during the 1950s. Though she heard Yiddish and kept Kosher at home, Eva remained unaware of her Jewish heritage. This ignorance protected Eva at her Communist-run school.