Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54181
Points per Word
0.000148
Description
During the Japanese occupation of parts of China, twelve-year-old Ye Xian is thrown out of her father and stepmother's home, joins a martial arts group, and tries to help her aunt and the Americans in their struggle against the Japanese invaders.