Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir is 6th and 7th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 4 |
SMOG Index | Grade 8 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir is 115,320 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 7 hrs 42 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 12 hrs 49 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 4 hrs 17 mins.
Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir - 115,320 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 12 hrs 49 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 7 hrs 42 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 4 hrs 17 mins |
for Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream: A Memoir
<p class="MsoNormal">“Vividly honest, deeply moving.”—Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: Reflections of a Japanese American <p class="MsoNormal">“It is a magnificent memoir, fully worthy of being compared to Farewell to Manzanar. I cannot praise its pointillist realism, its Zen-like austerity, highly enough. Exquisite.”—Kevin Starr, California : A History <p class="MsoNormal">“Taken simply as a family chronicle, it is moving and graceful. But it is also a powerful, thought-provoking historical document.”—James Fallows, Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy <p class="MsoNormal">When Kiyo’s father left Japan, his mother told him never to return: there was no future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity even though he could not become a citizen or own land. Education was his watchword. He and his wife and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, the eldest, was eighteen, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family’s struggle to endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice. Rejected by several nursing schools due to her ethnicity, Kiyo eventually became a captain in the Army Nursing Corps. The Satos returned home to find their farm in ruins, occupied by another family, but through fortitude and ingenuity, they persevered and ultimately succeeded.