Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56556
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.028881
Description
Firm in her belief that her missing parents will return to the bombed-out circus camp where she lives with a group of "leftover" children, ten-year-old Babo has no desire to leave her war-torn country.