Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54811
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
235
Points per Page
0.034043
Description
When sixteen-year-old Monica and her widowed father go back to Los Angeles, moving from a wealthy neighborhood to the barrio house her mother grew up in, Monica tries to locate a missing neighbor, and in the process learns about her mother's past.