Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
61755
Points per Word
0.00013
Page Count
274
Points per Page
0.029197
Description
When living with her alcoholic mother becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybe Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work and tries to track down her birth father. The plot contains sexual situations and violence.