Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.4
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
796
Points per Word
0.000628
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This is the true story of Estela Jaurez, a young American girl who writes letters to her newspaper, to Congress, and even to the president, pleading for someone to listen and reunite her family after her mother's deportation. Text includes cultural bias.