Don't Feed the Boy cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 4.8
Points 7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 50623
Points per Word 0.000138
Page Count 282
Points per Page 0.024823

Description

Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl," for whom the place is a refuge from problems at home. The plot contains violence.