Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55742
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
228
Points per Page
0.039474
Description
Xuela Claudette Richardson grows up in the care of her father's laundress obsessed with trying to piece together a portrait of her Carib mother who died at the moment of Xuela's birth.