Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
2.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
7352
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
234
Points per Page
0.004274
Description
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound, but the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam. Book contains violence and depicts cultural bias.