Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
2.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1419
Points per Word
0.000352
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Armando and his father are trash-pickers in Tijuana, but when Señor David brings his "school," a blue tarp he sets down in their neighborhood near the garbage dump, Armando's father decides that he must attend. The coauthor is Judith Pinkerton Josephson.