Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.3
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
83511
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
361
Points per Page
0.033241
Description
After his older brother is killed in Iraq, fifteen-year-old Kaden moves to San Francisco, where he is introduced to a life of drugs, sex, and apathy. The plot contains pervasive profanity, graphic sexual situations, and drug use.