Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.9
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2541
Points per Word
0.000197
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
Shiraz shows kindness to a strange old woman and receives the gift of beauty, but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Monir, suffers a less pleasant fate. An adaptation of a Grimm fairy tale, reset in Tehran, Iran. Illustrated by Vali Mintzi.