Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.6
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66125
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
271
Points per Page
0.0369
Description
Fourteen-year-old Ella is detained on her way home from school and sent to a Nazi concentration camp, where she is forced to work in the Upper Tailoring Studio, a sewing workshop alongside two dozen other women. The prisoners must stitch couture dresses for the Nazis while facing the constant threat of death. The story follows Ella's struggle for survival and the friendships she forms with the other seamstresses in the camp.