Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
25486
Points per Word
0.000157
Description
The author describes her journey in 1933, at the age of seven, with her mother and two sisters from their village in southern China to the U.S. and recalls important moments from their first eight years in America.