Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.3
Points
28.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
168785
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
535
Points per Page
0.052336
Description
Steven "Crash" Crashinsky relates his sordid ten-year relationship with David "Burn" Burnett, the boy he stopped from he took their high school hostage at gunpoint. The plot contains pervasive profanity, sexual references, and drug use.