Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35012
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.02551
Description
Twelve-year-old best friends and relatives, Julia and Eliza are happy to spend the summer together while Julia's mother is serving in the National Guard in Iraq, but when they meet a neighborhood boy, their close relationship begins to change.