Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
7.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
51377
Points per Word
0.000175
Page Count
187
Points per Page
0.048128
Description
In 1972, when she was seven, Firoozeh Dumas and her family moved from Iran to Southern California, arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father's glowing memories of his graduate school years here.