Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25859
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
136
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
Having spent his life trying to escape the foster care system and eventually becoming mute to keep out of trouble, twelve-year-old Newboy finally hits the streets, where a discarded ventriloquist's dummy gives him back his voice and his hope.