Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63163
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
295
Points per Page
0.033898
Description
Exiled after her father is killed in a coup, 15-year-old Laila must cope with a new way of life, the truth of her father's regime, and her mother and brother's ways of adjusting. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.