Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34511
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
200
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In the California of the 1840s, thirteen-year-old Cesa has a wonderful life, although the world beyond is changing. Mexico has lost the 1846 war with the United States and Upper California now belongs to foreigners, the Americans.