Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51595
Points per Word
0.000174
Description
In 1944, the small French village of Oradour-sur-Glane was wiped out in a single day by an SS regiment. Only a handful of people survived, including just one child. This novel imagines what happened on that fateful day. There is some distressing content.