Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48752
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.029167
Description
In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.