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.