Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32923
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
175
Points per Page
0.028571
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bing-wing Chan resents his father, not only because the man gambles away all their money, but also because he now forces Bing to help him in his gruesome job. Ba is the bone collector, the one who digs up skeletons of deceased Chinese.