Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40399
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
237
Points per Page
0.025316
Description
Thirteen-year-old Joan's home is under constant threat from the Nazis' terrifying nightly air raids in Liverpool in 1940. Everyone is on edge, faced with strict food rationing, curfews, and blackouts. It is not an easy time to be a teenager.