Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
16949
Points per Word
0.000177
Page Count
135
Points per Page
0.022222
Description
The author recalls her childhood in Fascist Italy during World War II when she and her sisters hid in a convent boarding school, where they and other Jewish children tried to adjust to their new lives. Book contains bullying and cultural bias.