Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50411
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
After soldiers kill his family, twelve-year-old Santiago and his four-year-old sister flee Guatemala in a kayak and try to reach the United States.