Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.3
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
61776
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.039062
Description
During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.