Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
58994
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
266
Points per Page
0.033835
Description
Grieving Mildred tries to have her son, who died in World War II, cloned, but instead a Japanese man emerges and her niece, Ella Mae, befriends him, in spite of the town's intense prejudice and her aunt's conviction that he is her son's killer.