Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.9
Points
37.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
221385
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
518
Points per Page
0.071429
Description
This book follows Peekay, a white British boy in South Africa during World War II, between the ages of five and eleven, as he survives an abusive boarding school and goes on to succeed in life.