Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.9
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
24202
Points per Word
0.000124
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.016575
Description
With a neglectful mother who has an abusive, live-in boyfriend, life for fifteen-year-old Samara is not fine, but when a substitute teacher walks into class one day and introduces her to poetry, she starts to view life from a different perspective.