Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66734
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
308
Points per Page
0.032468
Description
Overweight, self-assured, high-school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.