Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18958
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
112
Points per Page
0.026786
Description
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.