Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29354
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.025
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from his abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas racetrack, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.