Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10706
Points per Word
0.000187
Description
During the desperate icy winter of the Leningrad siege, when three quarters of a million inhabitants will die from starvation and cold, a young Russian boy is given a mission to escape from the city carrrying a sacred cross - a symbol of hope.