Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14750
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
238
Points per Page
0.008403
Description
A fourteen-year-old describes, through prose poems, his life in a small Australian town in 1962, where, since their mother's death, he and his brother have been mainly on their own to learn about life, death, and love.