Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
68573
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
343
Points per Page
0.029155
Description
Thirteen-year-old Travis returns to his old Salinas neighborhood and becomes actively involved in saving the John Steinbeck Library and, at the same time, begins seeing characters from Steinbeck's books who seem to have a message for him.