Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1582
Points per Word
0.000316
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
Eric describes Christmas at his grandmother's apartment in Spanish Harlem the year she introduced him to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Diego Velazquez's portrait of Juan de Pareja, which has had a profound and lasting effect on him.