Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65765
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
264
Points per Page
0.037879
Description
Zulaikha, a 13-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of changes in her life as she defies her father and meets with a woman who teaches her to read, her sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.