After eleven-year-old Zitlally's father is deported to Mexico, she takes refuge in her trailer park's forest of rusted car parts, where she befriends a spunky neighbor and finds a stray dog that she nurses back to health and believes she must keep safe so that her father will return. Interest Level: 3-6 Reading Level: 4.5 ATOS Book Level: 4.5 AR Interest Level: MG AR Points: 3 AR Quiz: 136221EN Reading Counts Level: 4.7 Reading Counts Points: 6 Lexile Measure: 780 Fountas & Pinnell: V.