Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33273
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
168
Points per Page
0.029762
Description
The common theme of nuclear disaster and human vulnerability interweaves the lives of four young people, an Ojibway Indian, an illegal Mexican migrant worker, a rock musician, and a sheep rancher's daughter with the lives of three veterans of past wars.