Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10467
Points per Word
0.000191
Page Count
163
Points per Page
0.01227
Description
This biographical, free-verse novel shares the life of Antonio Chuffat, a Chinese African Cuban messenger boy in 1870s Cuba who became a translator and documented the freedom struggle of indentured Chinese laborers in his country.