Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40896
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
183
Points per Page
0.032787
Description
When shy fourteen-year-old Jodie accompanies her anthropologist mother to live in Sierra Leone, she befriends a local girl but encounters a cultural divide that cannot be crossed.