Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21935
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.023438
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.