Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.8
Points
16.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
97664
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
331
Points per Page
0.048338
Description
In 1990, thirteen-year-old John "Spud" Milton, a prepubescent choirboy, keeps a diary of his first year at an elite, boys-only boarding school in South Africa as he deals with housemates, wild crushes, embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, and more.