Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
70811
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
262
Points per Page
0.041985
Description
Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving and troubled in this memoir of growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s and 1960s. The plot contains profanity and violence.