Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35866
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
458
Points per Page
0.0131
Description
When sixteen-year-old Sara, from a small Vermont town, wins a scholarship to study ballet in New Jersey, her ambivalence about her future increases even as her dancing improves. The text is written in free-verse and contains sexual references.