Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30924
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
201
Points per Page
0.024876
Description
Timid twelve-year-old Teddy Mathews and his mother move to a small, remote desert town in eastern Washington, where the tree next door, mutated by nuclear waste, uses children for energy and the friends Teddy makes turn out to be its life source.