Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.8
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47160
Points per Word
0.00017
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.037559
Description
In a New Zealand reformatory, Hamish Graham, an extremely intelligent fourteen-year-old who believes in the compulsory study of violence, learns that it is not always the answer. The plot contains profanity and graphic violence.