Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
11234
Points per Word
0.000178
Description
A story told from three different points of view: a brother working with orphans in Africa, his sister who watches the swallows prepare to leave for their winter migration to that continent, and the swallow who faces terrible dangers on this flight.