Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
67119
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
307
Points per Page
0.032573
Description
Deza Malone, the smartest girl in her class, accompanies her mother and older brother on a trip to find her father, an African American man who left to find work after the Great Depression hit, and end up in a shantytown outside Flint, Michigan.