Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
73826
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
283
Points per Page
0.038869
Description
It is 1968, and 16-year-old Jon and his friends form a tight friendship in which they find in each other everything they lack at home and plot to leave their dead-end town. The plot contains pervasive profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence.