Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30972
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
202
Points per Page
0.019802
Description
Fifth-grader Cally stops talking, partly because her father and brother never speak of her mother who died a year earlier, but visions of her mother, friendships with a homeless man and a disabled boy, and a huge dog ensure that she still communicates.