Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18767
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
129
Points per Page
0.023256
Description
Gene Tucks, a sixth grader who moves south with her family, is given a hundred-day journal writing project at school, and she starts telling her new "listener," Toni, about moving into an empty apartment behind a gas station with her family.