Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.5
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
11142
Points per Word
0.00018
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.041667
Series
Days That Shook the World
Description
This book examines the events of June 4, 1989, when thousands of young people who had gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to protest the rigid policies of the Chinese government were fired upon by military troops, resulting in hundreds of deaths.