Escaping the Tiger cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level 4.8
Points 6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 42265
Points per Word 0.000142
Page Count 216
Points per Page 0.027778

Description

In 1982, twelve-year-old Vonlai, his parents, and sister, Dalah, escape from Laos to a Thai refugee camp where they spend four long years struggling to survive in hopes of one day reaching America.