Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
2.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
992
Points per Word
0.000504
Page Count
36
Points per Page
0.013889
Series
Carolrhoda Picture Books
Description
Nico doesn't have to join the Army to see the world; that's what younger brother Luis tries to show by painting a mural in the neighborhood alley. But Nico is deployed, and his small brother paints the world in the alleyway to hold on to him.