Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17914
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
207
Points per Page
0.014493
Description
Six high-school students in Los Angeles in 1965 express their experiences and feelings in journal entries, notes, letters, and poems. The texts contain profanity, sexual language, descriptions of violence, and alcohol and drug use.