Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
4475
Points per Word
0.000223
Page Count
63
Points per Page
0.015873
Description
In a strange tale well-suited to budding philosophers, eight-year-old Christine is late for school every day because a talking alley cat demands her attention, giving her much to think about as he tries to teach her to be spiteful and pitiless.