Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.7
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
15686
Points per Word
0.000128
Page Count
211
Points per Page
0.009479
Description
Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge.