Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49596
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
214
Points per Page
0.03271
Description
When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to live with their aunt in northern California.