Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53961
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
284
Points per Page
0.03169
Description
Lorenzo lives among the salt flats and the flamingos of the Camargue during World War II. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. Book contains ethnic slurs, racial, ethnic and disability bias, and violence.