Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.3
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46434
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
195
Points per Page
0.035897
Description
In 1963 in the Bronx, New York, eighth-graders Fiona and Yolanda help one another face hard decisions about Fiona's abusive alcoholic father and social opposition to their interracial friendship. The plot contains themes for older MG readers.