Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49352
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
250
Points per Page
0.028
Description
This is the story of how one family survives the Guatemalan army's "scorched earth" campaign in the 1980s, and how their love, loyalty to each other, and Papa's storytelling keeps them going on their harrowing search for refuge in the United States.