Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53581
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
302
Points per Page
0.02649
Description
In the days leading up to the partition of India in 1947, thirteen-year-old Bilal devises an elaborate scheme to keep his dying father from hearing the news about the country's division.