Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45481
Points per Word
0.000176
Page Count
197
Points per Page
0.040609
Description
During China's Cultural Revolution, two boys are exiled to a remote mountain village for re-education There they flirt with a seamstress and secretly devour banned Western classics in Chinese translation. The story contains sexual situations.