Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37903
Points per Word
0.000132
Page Count
217
Points per Page
0.023041
Description
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier and who now wants to return home.