Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54911
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.033088
Description
Harper watches, with a child's clear eyes, her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes even deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets.