Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52748
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
248
Points per Page
0.032258
Description
In two parallel stories, a fourteen-year-old boy who is NASA's first Junior Astronaut and a fourteen-year-old Maasai herder in Kenya both edge into maturity while questioning their family traditions.