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.