The Boy and the Samurai cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.1
Points 9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 59174
Points per Word 0.000152
Page Count 256
Points per Page 0.035156

Description

Having grown up as an orphan of the streets while sixteenth-century Japan is being ravaged by civil war, Saru seeks to help a Samurai rescue his wife from imprisonment by a warlord so they can all flee to a more peaceful life.