Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56549
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
288
Points per Page
0.03125
Series
Great Episodes
Description
Shunned and mistreated because of her mixed heritage and determined to avoid an arranged marriage, seventeen-year-old Loi runs away to Ho Chi Minh City, hoping that she and the boy she loves will be able to go to the United States to find her father.