Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.1
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
4981
Points per Word
0.000201
Page Count
75
Points per Page
0.013333
Series
Shade Books
Description
On his fourteenth-and-a-half birthday, Simon begins experiencing strange, werewolf-like transformations that alarm him and his classmates. When the class bully turns his attention to the new student Ulrich, a loner who shares Simon's sense of isolation, the two must deal with both the bullying and Simon's emerging powers. The story follows Simon and Ulrich as they navigate the challenges of adolescence, the mystery of Simon's transformations, and the pressure of a hostile peer environment.