Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
3.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50675
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
283
Points per Page
0.024735
Description
Sixteen-year-old Billy spends the summer with his gay uncle in Tucson and works at a racetrack where he falls in love with an outspoken horse exerciser named Cara Mae.