Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
68333
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
329
Points per Page
0.030395
Description
All that twelve-year-old Lina knows of the world is the Stalinist labor camp where she was born, a place of hunger, cruelty, and deprivation. After a daring escape into the frigid Siberian wilds with her best friend, Bogdan, Lina vows to reach Moscow.