Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25735
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
In the late 1970s, Hajdar leaves his Afghanistan countryside village for the excitement of Kabul, but he and his family are swept up in the turmoil when the Soviet Union invades his country. This book is translated by Angela Barnett-Lindberg.