Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27288
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
163
Points per Page
0.02454
Description
While her adoptive American mother is away, twelve-year-old Zoya confides in her diary of her fears about the Buka, an old woman who waits in the shadows to snatch children, and confronts some truths about her childhood in her native country, Russia.