Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56304
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.037559
Description
The lives of three loners, 18-yr-old Will, 14-yr-old Kurt, and Carrie, a middle-aged schizophrenic, dangerously intersect when Carrie, who hears the thoughts of neglected animals, offers to pay Kurt to bring strays to her. The plot contains violence.