Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.9
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73457
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
275
Points per Page
0.036364
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alastair, who calls himself Stump because of his amputated leg, must face a summer at his estranged father's beach house, falls in love with a teenage soap opera star, and decides to train for a race with an Olympic swim coach.