Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
86800
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
276
Points per Page
0.047101
Description
A man reflects on his troubled childhood, when, at age thirteen, he was sentenced to a reformatory ranch in Colorado, where he and the other boys cared for untamed horses. The plot contains pervasive profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence.