Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41914
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
252
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
Twelve-year-old Kia Vang's life is shattered when North Vietnamese soldiers destroy much of her village. This book is set in Laos and Minnesota in the 1970s.