Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
69224
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
214
Points per Page
0.046729
Description
At the age of nine, living in the barrio of Depression-era Los Angeles, Angela agonizingly learns that it is a crime to be Mexican as she witnesses her adored father's unjust beating and arrest by immigration authorities.