Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50489
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
210
Points per Page
0.038095
Description
Still sad and frightened after living in Poland through World War I and the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Devorah Lehman, her younger sister, and other Jewish orphans travel with Isaac Ochberg to South Africa and make a new start.