Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42715
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
199
Points per Page
0.030151
Description
Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, and then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."