Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63936
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
256
Points per Page
0.035156
Description
Uncertain of where she really belongs, thirteen-year-old Nissa leaves her Louisiana home where she lives with her father and new stepmother and goes to stay with her eccentric mother in Chicago.