Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41900
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
200
Points per Page
0.03
Description
Forced to stay with her mother in Puerto Rico after her grandmother's funeral, half-Jewish Emily, who has just graduated from high school in New York, does not find it easy to connect with her Puerto Rican heritage and relatives she has never met.