Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48571
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
247
Points per Page
0.02834
Description
Seventh-grader Ben, always an outsider, is led into a deep friendship with Halley, who is being treated for cancer, by the special dog he and his adoptive mother take in.