Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26270
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
The Watcher by James Howe is about a lonely, troubled girl who observes people from her perch above the beach. She watches a fourteen-year-old boy from what appears to be a perfect family and an eighteen-year-old lifeguard. As she creates fantasy lives for them in her mind, their lives become intertwined and their troubling truths are revealed.