Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
79017
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
289
Points per Page
0.041522
Description
A fourteen-year-old girl awaits signs of womanhood and navigates life alongside her best friend in a small Midwestern city in the 1970s, but their friendship is tested by their families and life's trials. The plot contains profanity and violence.