Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49719
Points per Word
0.000161
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lee Parsons escapes from an English boarding school and travels across the world to reach his home in Australia, fleeing his powerful television interviewer father Trevor. Along his journey, Lee faces numerous challenges including being pursued, rained on, shot at, and arrested. In Australia, his best friend Scott Hagen waits for him, while Lee's mother struggles to cope at home.