Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36038
Points per Word
0.000139
Description
Twelve-year-old Astrid has come to Ghana with her family in 1979 so that her father can help oversee Ghana's first democratic election. Astrid and her brother, Gordo, soon find out that everything about Ghana is difficult.