Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65877
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
264
Points per Page
0.037879
Description
Living with his religious father, feminist mother, and racist grandmother in Denver, Colorado, during the early 1980s, twelve-year-old Samuel Gerard relates his school adventures and deals with his own prejudices toward Mexican immigrants.