Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55916
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
247
Points per Page
0.032389
Description
Once her mother's ashes are put away after her father marries Alice, Glorieta Davis Espinosa determines to persuade her great-aunt to allow them to be buried in the family plot by the Day of the Dead, even as she deals with Alice's children.