Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47717
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
180
Points per Page
0.038889
Description
A powerful and haunting collection of ten short stories including the title story in which a teenage lifeguard sees his mystique among the girls on the beach dissolve in a panicked moment when he cannot save a child.