Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
75808
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
378
Points per Page
0.031746
Description
In 1989 Romania, people who say or do the wrong thing disappear. Ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own. The story contains graphic violence.