Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53974
Points per Word
0.00013
Page Count
200
Points per Page
0.035
Description
In the summer of 1978, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano discovers a boy his age, nearly dead, in an abandoned house and nurses him back to health, learning that the boy was kidnapped, ransomed, and does not know how he got to the house.