Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.9
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
83196
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
326
Points per Page
0.03681
Description
In 1970, after their brother is sent to Vietnam, 16-year-old Jonah and his younger brother Simon leave home to find their father and find themselves hitching a ride with a violent killer. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and violence.