Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41708
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
251
Points per Page
0.023904
Description
Nora, a fourteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.