Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27902
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.018779
Description
After her mother dies, eleven-year-old Cecelia befriends a new boy at school, but she soon realizes that the scruffy youth’s home life is the reason for his introspective personality, which is so much like her own.