Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48840
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
248
Points per Page
0.028226
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself.