Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36915
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
158
Points per Page
0.037975
Description
In this revised edition by Mary Mills, Hamid does not want his little blind sister, Kinza, to be sold to a beggar by their stepfather. Together they escape from their mountain village to a town where there may be a new home for Kinza.