Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57061
Points per Word
0.000158
Description
This true-life story of a teenage girl's battle with anorexia chronicles how Jessica, at age thirteen, met the Monkey who lived inside her - a driving voice telling her that thinness was the only way to be safe and to escape from approaching adulthood.