Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17430
Points per Word
0.000172
Page Count
327
Points per Page
0.009174
Description
In free verse, half-Japanese, half-Jewish Kana Goldberg tells her story of being sent to Japan for the summer after an eighth-grade classmate's suicide, trying to fit in with relatives she barely knows.