Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49066
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
288
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
The life of eighth-grader Steven Alper, already complicated by his friendship with two girls and a prodigious talent for drumming, is turned upside down when his five-year-old brother Jeffrey is diagnosed with leukemia.