Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
29370
Points per Word
0.00017
Page Count
240
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
In this powerful but disturbing story, thirteen-year-old Pierre Anthon announces that "nothing matters," and his classmates set out on a desperate quest for the meaning of life. The plot contains sexual situations, graphic violence, and sacrilege.