Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29603
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
165
Points per Page
0.024242
Description
For forty-two days in 1991, eleven-year-old Ali Fadhil and his family struggle to survive as Basra, Iraq, is bombed by the United States and its allies. The plot contains slurs, negative stereotypes, and graphic violence. The coauthor is Ali Fadhil.