Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10388
Points per Word
0.000193
Page Count
72
Points per Page
0.027778
Series
Girlhood Journeys
Description
In fifteenth-century Africa, Kai and her beautiful but lazy older sister Jamila undertake a perilous four-day journey to another Yoruba village, seeking help for their starving tribe after the blight of the yam crop.