Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43035
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
Uneasy with the drunken violence and prejudice of his brother and others in his Irish neighborhood in Boston, Mick makes friends with a Spanish-speaking student at school.