Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.9
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
67830
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
277
Points per Page
0.036101
Description
Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Dawn, a sixteen-year-old runaway from San Francisco, connects by phone and email with Johar, a gentle, fifteen-year-old Afghani who assists Dawn's foster mother, a doctor, at a Red Cross refugee camp.