Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
77017
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
368
Points per Page
0.029891
Series
NO OFFICIAL SERIES TITLE
Description
Fourteen-year-old Doug Swieteck faces an abusive father, a brother traumatized by Vietnam, and suspicious teachers and police officers, but when he meets a girl known as Lil Spicer, he finds a safe place at the local library.