Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52928
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.03252
Description
While enduring a bleak existence in a hospital for lepers in Norway during the early 1800s, thirteen-year-old Tora tries to find meaning in a life surrounded by death.