Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.7
Points
20.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
130391
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
448
Points per Page
0.044643
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a strange turn when his mother's death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known and who is the town pariah. The plot contains profanity and violence.