Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1499
Points per Word
0.000334
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
When a concert cellist plays in the square for his neighbors in a war-besieged city, his priceless instrument is destroyed by a mortar shell, but he finds the courage to return the next day to perform with a harmonica.