Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40529
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.028169
Description
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen, where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man. The plot contains profanity and violence.