Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1782
Points per Word
0.000281
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
Emma, a Mexican American girl in San Antonio in the 1920s, learns about poverty while people work long hours for slave wages at pecan-shelling factories. At the age 21, she leads 12,000 workers in a struggle for justice. The coauthor is Sharyll Teneyuca.