Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
11369
Points per Word
0.000176
Page Count
111
Points per Page
0.018018
Description
Twelve-year-old Güero, a red-headed, freckled Mexican American border kid, discovers the joy of writing poetry, thanks in part to his seventh grade English teacher.