Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2646
Points per Word
0.000189
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
In August 1961, a wall was built through the heart of Berlin to keep East Germans from going to West Germany. For the next 28 years, East German border guards had orders to fire on anyone attempting to escape over the wall. Book has violence.