Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65674
Points per Word
0.000152
Description
Fifteen-year-old Hanna is a Latvian girl who dreams of becoming a dancer while caring for her mother and grandmother, but her life shatters when the Nazis occupy her country and label her a Jew. Stripped of her freedom and forced to hide, she must navigate terror, loss, and the constant threat of deportation. The story chronicles her struggle to hold onto hope and humanity amid the brutal realities of the Holocaust. Through Hanna's eyes, the novel paints a vivid, heartbreaking portrait of an ordinary teenager's fight for survival in wartime Europe.