Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54823
Points per Word
0.000128
Page Count
317
Points per Page
0.022082
Description
Eleven-year-old Makeda dreams of meeting her African American mother, while coping with serious problems in her white adoptive family, a cross-country move, and being homeschooled. The story contains slurs and themes of substance abuse and suicide.