Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49919
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
243
Points per Page
0.028807
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.