Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
21832
Points per Word
0.000183
Page Count
134
Points per Page
0.029851
Description
In this memoir, Baba Diakité recalls the time he spent as a child with his grandparents in a tiny Malian village, where he learned to catch a catfish with his bare hands, listened to his grandmother's stories, and soaked in other life lessons.