Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52617
Points per Word
0.000133
Page Count
212
Points per Page
0.033019
Description
On a free-wheeling bus tour of the West with assorted family members, senior citizens galore, and one boy her age, sixteen-year-old Ariel writes postcards to her maybe-boyfriend and others while trying to cope with the effects of her parents' divorce.