Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.2
Points
16.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
97726
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
363
Points per Page
0.044077
Description
The author recalls her childhood in a strict religious Midwestern town and her brother's and her own education in a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic, all amid the trials of adolescence and racism. The text includes sexual situations.