Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.8
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
78179
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
336
Points per Page
0.032738
Description
Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this novel focuses on two star-crossed misfits who are smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts but brave and desperate enough to try. The plot contains profanity.