Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
3156
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
88
Points per Page
0.005682
Description
As a young boy grows increasingly cruel when his parents ignore him, he makes the fateful decision to light a fire in the trunk of an ancient oak that swallows him up. As the years go by, the boy grows to understand nature and regret his behavior.