Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14019
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
121
Points per Page
0.016529
Description
Free verse tells the story of thirteen-year-old Mina Tagawa and her Japanese American family as they are forced to evacuate their Seattle home and relocate to an internment camp in Idaho, where they live for three years.