Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59281
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
288
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
Belle is a high school junior who expects to marry her long-term boyfriend one day, until he tells her and their entire small Maine town that he is gay, and both face prejudice and violence even as they enter new relationships and try to remain friends.