Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26754
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
162
Points per Page
0.024691
Description
Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Text has disturbing imagery and references to suicide.