Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43311
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.030612
Description
Although he tries to make a home with his older sister and her boyfriend after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Runt feels like an outsider, until a young cancer patient and his family show him how life can become more meaningful.