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The Weight of Our Sky

Author: Alkaf, Hanna

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.7
Points 10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 65378
Points per Word 0.000153
Page Count 304
Points per Page 0.032895

Description

Amid the Chinese-Malay conflict in Kuala Lumpur in 1969, sixteen-year-old Melati must overcome prejudice, violence, and her own OCD to find her way back to her mother. Text contains graphic violence, mental illness, and racial slurs.