Boy Overboard cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 3.9
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 34268
Points per Word 0.000146

Description

Told through the eyes of a football-mad brother and sister, an Afgan family are forced to leave their country because their mother teaches in an illegal school. On their flight to Australia aboard a smugglers' boat football sustains their hopes.