Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38184
Points per Word
0.000131
Page Count
184
Points per Page
0.027174
Description
While visiting his mentally ill mother at a psychiatric hospital, high school junior Ben Mander starts talking to a young man who claims that he travels back and forth between the present and the year 4000, searching for a cure for mental illness.