Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14766
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
193
Points per Page
0.010363
Description
Told in verse and set in 1981, this book follows a twelve-year-old Guatemalan boy who lives through the massacre of his village and must decide what it means to be a man in a time of war.