Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46958
Points per Word
0.000128
Page Count
265
Points per Page
0.022642
Description
Family, school, and life in general are seen through the writings of four fifth-graders who have been taken out of an overcrowded New York City classroom and placed with a teacher who shows them how to write and to believe in themselves.