Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
46185
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
226
Points per Page
0.030973
Description
Brendan doesn't get along with his foster mother, is failing 6th grade, and is being bullied mercilessly by delinquent boys. When he meets two new friends, an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school, and he feels hope. The plot contains violence.