Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
31990
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
171
Points per Page
0.02924
Description
In this childhood memoir, Mihulka tells the story of her family's deportation by the Soviets, under cover of darkness and at gunpoint, and their subsequent two years as prisoners on a Soviet communal farm in Kazakhstan.