Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38215
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
179
Points per Page
0.03352
Description
In 1961 East Berlin, thirteen-year-old Heidi copes with the stress of a crisis with her best friend, government pressure on her father to leave his West Berlin job, her mother's pregnancy, and the ever-present threat of the closing of the border.