Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36396
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
307
Points per Page
0.019544
Description
Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal."