Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26125
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
629
Points per Page
0.006359
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben, whose story is told in words, loses both his mother and his hearing and leaves home to seek the father he never knew, while Rose, whose story is told in pictures, is also compelled to search for the something missing in her life.