Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49746
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.029167
Description
In 1968, Delores "Itch" and her grandmother move from Florida to an Ohio trailer park where she meets new people and when she learns that a friend is being abused by her mother, tries her best to emulate her plain-spoken grandfather.