Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33614
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
183
Points per Page
0.027322
Description
In New York, fourteen-year-old Matt spends the summer of 1973 digging clams to earn money for his own boat and falling for Jazzy, a beautiful and talented girl from Hawaii who happens to be his first cousin.