Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1025
Points per Word
0.000488
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
Napi, a Mazateca girl, remembers the time her family and many others had to leave their village because the government was building a dam that would flood their homes. What she remembers most vividly is her father's brush with death during the harvest.