Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25192
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
184
Points per Page
0.021739
Description
As American bombs fall on Baghdad during the Iraq War, ten-year-old cousins Nouri and Talib witness the growing violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.