Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55309
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
233
Points per Page
0.034335
Description
Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder.