Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1608
Points per Word
0.000311
Page Count
15
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
Twelve-year-old Itanya works in a Kenyan factory with her mother in order to scrape by. Her dream is to eat and learn and live like a "normal child," but that dream feels so far from reach.