Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
7340
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
72
Points per Page
0.013889
Description
In 1970, thirteen-year-old Marika dreams of going to Harvard to study economics, but her parents both believe that a woman's place is in the home. Marika does not understand why they are so attached to "traditional values."