Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48161
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.033654
Description
Thirteen-year-old clarinet-playing surfer Yumi Ruíz-Hirsch comes from a complex family. Her dad is Jewish Japanese, her mom is Cuban, and they are divorced, and when her grandfather Saul is diagnosed with cancer, she asks him to tell her his life story.