Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.1
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
102538
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
365
Points per Page
0.046575
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through junior high school. But when a grizzly bear saves his life, he forms a friendship.