The Waiting cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 3.8
Points 2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 13435
Points per Word 0.000149
Page Count 248
Points per Page 0.008065

Description

When Gwija was 17 years old, after hearing that the Japanese were seizing unmarried girls, her family married her in a hurry to a man she didn't know. Book has violence, racism, gender bias, animal cruelty, disturbing imagery and negative stereotypes.