Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
70218
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
264
Points per Page
0.037879
Description
Bobby, quarterback of his high-school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay. Events spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student paper and the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.