Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.0
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44790
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
243
Points per Page
0.028807
Description
In Tanzania in 1967, when President Nyerere urges his people to work together as one extended family, the people of Litongo move to a new village, where thirteen-year-old Shida and her female cousins are allowed to attend school.