Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59056
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Joe Hanada and his family face growing prejudice, eventually being torn away from their home and sent to a relocation camp in California, even as his older brother joins the United States Army to fight in the war.