Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
24274
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century in Libya, eleven-year-old Malika simultaneously enjoys and feels constricted by the narrow world of women, but an injured stranger enters her home and disrupts the traditional order of things.