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.