Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.7
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
19029
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
127
Points per Page
0.023622
Description
The book follows eight-year-old Lucky and his ten-year-old sister Nopi, who are kidnapped from their school in Liberia and forced to become child soldiers during the country's fourteen-year civil war. The siblings eventually escape and are reunited with their parents, but their traumatic experiences continue to affect their lives. This true story provides a powerful account of the horrors of child soldiering in Liberia.