Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51937
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
236
Points per Page
0.029661
Description
After ten years in a refugee camp in Thailand, 13-year-old Mai Yang travels to Providence, Rhode Island, where her Americanized cousins introduce her to pizza and shopping, while her grandmother and new friends keep her connected to her Hmong heritage.