Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.6
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
24502
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
127
Points per Page
0.031496
Description
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, and feels torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.