Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61984
Points per Word
0.000145
Description
Six-year-old Sasha becomes a Russian Red Army soldier after the Nazis make him an orphan. As a frontline witness to the horrors of war, Sasha fights using the only weapons he can carry: kindness and love. Text has violence and disturbing imagery.