Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41727
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
During her solitary convalescence from a crippling accident, twelve-year-old Charley finds a wild dog, and the arduous process of training him leads her to explore her feelings about her mother’s death two years earlier.