Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
13310
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
179
Points per Page
0.011173
Description
In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work all day and then jitterbug with sailors all night while their zoot-suit-wearing younger brother, Ray, deals with prejudices.