Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
20.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
125047
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
532
Points per Page
0.037594
Description
Karl Shoemaker, starting his senior year in Lightsburg, Ohio, in 1973, vows to break out of the therapy group he has been forced to attend during school hours and become "normal." The plot contains profanity, sexual situations and violence.