Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.6
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
89494
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
296
Points per Page
0.043919
Description
For a responsible high-school student, Michael has lots of problems: his father was killed in Afghanistan, his mother will not talk about their situation, and he is receiving letters his father wrote before his death. The plot contains racial slurs.