The Girl-Son cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.0
Points 4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 24331
Points per Word 0.000164
Page Count 132
Points per Page 0.030303

Description

The story is based on the life of Induk Pahk, whose widowed mother disguised her as a boy at the age of eight in order for her to attend school, a choice forbidden to girls in early twentieth century Korea.