Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23327
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.