Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51017
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
285
Points per Page
0.02807
Description
No longer able to tolerate living with his alcoholic mother and her abusive boyfriend, Benji has moved in with his emotionally distant father and stepmother and strives to be invisible at home and school until events force him to express himself.