Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51983
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
288
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
Shy twelve-year-old Nisha, forced to flee her home with her Hindu family during the 1947 partition of India, tries to find her voice and make sense of the world falling apart around her by writing in the pages of her diary. The plot contains violence.