Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50745
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
310
Points per Page
0.022581
Description
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales, who really prefers to be called Malú, reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang, violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic.