Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25419
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
106
Points per Page
0.037736
Description
Eleven-year-old Steven has vague and disturbing memories of being left alone on a road in the middle of nowhere when he was young; but his mother, faced with her own problems, continually avoids answering his questions about their earlier life.