Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2562
Points per Word
0.000195
Page Count
28
Points per Page
0.017857
Description
Hamzat, a boy born in Chechnya in 1993, tells about his life in a time of war and explains how he and his family came to live in England after he stepped on a land mine and had to have his leg amputated.