Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
737
Points per Word
0.000678
Page Count
20
Points per Page
0.025
Description
A young Mexican boy tells how he, his mother, and his sister travel across the border to search for his father and for work in Los Angeles.