The Boy in the Oak cover

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.