Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45339
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
260
Points per Page
0.026923
Description
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the tragedy.