Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21915
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
357
Points per Page
0.008403
Description
Through free verse poems, seventeen-year-old Vera tells her story of family tragedy as she runs away to a small desert town and tries unsuccessfully to forget her grief and sorrow.