Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56486
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
282
Points per Page
0.028369
Description
In 1982 Iran, twelve-year-old Reza is more interested in music than war, but he enlists in obedience to his devout mother and soon finds himself in a prison camp in Iraq. The plot contains graphic violence.