Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33890
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
177
Points per Page
0.028249
Description
Being sent to stay with grandparents he hardly knows is hard enough for twelve-year-old Erik, whose parents are deployed to Iraq, but his grandfather's hostility and the threat of losing the dog he rescues causes Eric to run away.