Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.2
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
19882
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
161
Points per Page
0.018634
Description
Eleven-year-old Kaia, emotionally isolated after her brother's suicide, befriends a wild boy who mysteriously appears at her London school and finds a way to communicate with him despite his being mute. The plot contains alcohol use.