Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1012
Points per Word
0.000494
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Alemitu lives with her mother in a poor village in Ethiopia, where she must walk miles for water and hunger roars in her belly. When her mother leaves her at an orphanage to give her a chance at a better life, an American family adopts her.