Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50432
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
After all the suffering due to decades of civil wars in Central America, Calixto and his fellow Central American immigrants struggle to find their place in the United States. The plot contains profanity and sexual situations.