Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.8
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64437
Points per Word
0.000171
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.049107
Description
Raised in a lab, Ortega seems nearly human to his scientist-caregivers, but to the children at his new school, a talking gorilla is nothing but a freak. Unless he wants to spend the rest of his life locked in a cage, he needs to change people's minds.