Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46797
Points per Word
0.00015
Description
Bruno and his family leave Berlin after his father is promoted to commandant at an Auschwitz concentration camp. Bruno's innocence leads him to strike up a friendship with the boy on the other side of the fence which leads to a tragic end.