Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
71204
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
322
Points per Page
0.034161
Description
When resentment surges during the Great Depression in a Texas town, fifteen-year-old Estrella organizes a protest against the treatment of tejanos and is later dumped with her mother and baby brother in Mexico. The story contains violence.