Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.2
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
81233
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
352
Points per Page
0.034091
Description
Jason, a 15-yr-old loner, struggles to hide his father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears and he enters foster care, he is forced to confide the secret. The plot contains profanity and violence.