Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
20234
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
149
Points per Page
0.020134
Description
After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return.