Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
66935
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
244
Points per Page
0.045082
Description
The author describes her life as the daughter of a woman afflicted with Munchausen by proxy, a form of child abuse in which a parent, most often a mother, invents or induces illness in a child in order to gain attention from medical professionals.