Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.0
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
89530
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
377
Points per Page
0.034483
Description
The summer before starting high school in inner-city Los Angeles, fourteen-year-old Shawn grapples with his first experience of love, the complicated bonds of friends and family, and the reality of street gang violence.