Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1971
Points per Word
0.000254
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Series
Tales of Young Americans
Description
Twelve-year-old Lee, an orphan, reluctantly leaves his grandparents in China for the long sea voyage to San Francisco, where he and other immigrants undergo examinations at Angel Island Immigration Station. The coauthor is Virginia Shin-Mui Loh.