Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57473
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
312
Points per Page
0.032051
Description
A sixteen-year-old girl in a remote Manchurian town is more concerned with the intimations of her own womanhood than the escalating hostilities between her countrymen and their Japanese occupiers.