Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.3
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48341
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
195
Points per Page
0.035897
Description
When fifteen-year-old Doris's mother, a professional singer, returns to Puerto Rico and her father finds a girlfriend, Doris cares for a neighbor's pigeons and relies on friends as she begins to find her own voice and wings.