Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41898
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ricky, the Mexican-American son of a former Drug Enforcement Agency man, tries to avenge his mother's murder by crossing over into Mexico to steal a high-tech radar plane from drug smugglers.