Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
77416
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
299
Points per Page
0.040134
Description
Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape. The plot contains profanity and violence.