Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33084
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
150
Points per Page
0.033333
Description
Set in the 1950s, this is a story about village life in Kenya as seen through a child's eyes. It was a time of growing violence that was about to change the structure of colonial Africa.