Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.2
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
78171
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
348
Points per Page
0.034483
Series
Trash Can Days
Description
Four 7th and 8h graders at a southern California junior high tell of a tumultuous year of changing friendships and romantic interests as they learn to be themselves. The plot contains profanity, violence, sexual situations and racial slurs.