Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44246
Points per Word
0.000158
Description
Everyone knew the rigs were beginning to pass their sell-by date. They were breaking up. Patched together by a series of welds. They were unstable. Unsafe. Everyone knew. They pretended not to.