Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63948
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
314
Points per Page
0.028662
Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea’s oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Text includes racial slurs, gender bias and graphic violence.