Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35020
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
194
Points per Page
0.025773
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cody trades one dangerous situation for another when he runs away from his abusive mother and takes a job caring for lions and tigers on a Texas ranch where one of the owners has supposedly gone missing.