Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.7
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
93576
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
310
Points per Page
0.054839
Description
The son of an Irish American mother and an Egyptian father who disappeared when he was three, Ahmad turned to Islam at the age of eleven. He finds employment in a store owned by a family of Lebanese, and the threads of a plot gather around him.