Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54911
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.033088
Description
A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground.