Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2225
Points per Word
0.000225
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Ten-year-old Jimena loves El Salvador. When gangs there threaten to force her to join, she and her mother immigrate to the United States but are separated at the border.