Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
6.4
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
72265
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
294
Points per Page
0.040816
Description
The book follows eighteen-year-old Bennett Bardo from Gordo, New Mexico, who asks his dream girl Sophie Gilkey to prom. After she says yes, Sophie is abducted by aliens, and Bennett embarks on an interstellar journey across the galaxy with a band of misfit musicians to find her. The story is set in contemporary New Mexico and expands into space, with the plot containing profanity and drug use.