Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64200
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
299
Points per Page
0.033445
Description
Joy is suffocating from severe asthma, overprotective parents, and an emotionally abusive boyfriend when she escapes to the streets of nearby Seattle and falls in with a "street family," who teach her to use a strength she did not know she had.