Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45732
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
183
Points per Page
0.038251
Description
In 1982 Buncombe County, North Carolina, sixteen-year-old Alex Stromm writes of the aftermath of the accidental drowning of a friend as his English teacher reaches out to him while he and a fellow boarding-school student try to cover things up.