Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50059
Points per Word
0.00014
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.032407
Description
After having been sent, at a very young age, from New York to live with her grandmother in Haiti, fourteen-year-old Mardi returns to join her parents to try to shape a new life in Brooklyn.