Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62742
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
287
Points per Page
0.034843
Description
Living in a cottage on her uncle's avocado ranch since her parents' messy divorce, fifteen-year-old Pearl Dewitt meets and falls in love with an illegal migrant worker and is trapped with him when wildfires approach his makeshift forest home.