Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59427
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
179
Points per Page
0.055866
Description
In 1960 Maine, a boy from a nearby town has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. Text contains profanity, explicit sexual situations, violence, abuse, alcoholism.