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The Ruins of California

Author: Sherrill, Martha

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.7
Points 16.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 100623
Points per Word 0.000159
Page Count 318
Points per Page 0.050314

Description

Inez Ruin moves between her mother's life in Los Angeles and her self-obsessed father in San Francisco, as she attempts to find a reality somewhere in the middle during the turbulent decade of the 1970s. The plot contains sexual situations and drug use.