Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46351
Points per Word
0.000151
Description
After the Taliban kill his father, Ali flees Afghanistan, arriving in Australia on a ramshackle boat. He is looking for freedom, but instead he is taken to a detention centre in the South Australian outback.