Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37877
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
233
Points per Page
0.025751
Description
Leaving a village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted 12-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the streets.