Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.3
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66580
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
260
Points per Page
0.042308
Description
After her father is killed in the Korean War, young Blanca Estela and her mother leave California to spend the summer in Mexico with Blanca's grandmother.