Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.6
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73197
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
282
Points per Page
0.039007
Description
An English boy and his family go to live in Zimbabwe as Robert Mugabe comes to power. The chaos and violence soon to envelop the country gradually poison his life in a boarding school.