Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53242
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
242
Points per Page
0.03719
Description
When forced to leave their houses and resettle in a barren "homeland," thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother, join in a school demonstration and learn that the South African government treats with brutality even children who dissent.