Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48300
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.025735
Description
Just when 12-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.