Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45479
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
246
Points per Page
0.028455
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hector is the hope of his family, but when he seeks revenge after his brother’s gang-related death and is sent to a San Antonio reform school, it takes an odd assortment of characters to help him see that hope is still alive.