Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29344
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
147
Points per Page
0.027211
Description
At age thirteen, best friends Ronnie and Joey suddenly feel like chimps: long armed, big eared, and gangly. When the coach humiliates Joey in front of a girl, he climbs up a tree and refuses to come down.