Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1718
Points per Word
0.000291
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
A ten-year-old Lebanese boy goes to school, helps his mother with chores, plays with his friends, and lives with his family in a basement shelter when bombings occur and fighting begins on his street. The coauthor is Judith Heide Gilliland.