Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23199
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
120
Points per Page
0.025
Description
When Mother fires the housekeeper, life becomes difficult for the entire Vo family, Vietnamese immigrants to France in 1964, but nine-year-old Véro and her twelve-year-old brother, Philippe, work together to try to convince Mother to rehire her.