Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56548
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
298
Points per Page
0.030201
Description
When AIDS devastates 13-year-old Auma's village in Kenya during the 1980s, Auma must choose between staying to help her family and working toward a track scholarship that will take her away from home. The plot contains sexual references.