Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53987
Points per Word
0.000148
Description
With the Second World War looming, four young people sit on a train waiting to be evacuated to a safer place, but they do not want to go. They climb out of the carriage and head back home, forming an unlikely friendship. Book has violence and mild profanity.