Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.7
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23940
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
142
Points per Page
0.028169
Description
Fourteen-year-old Shawn McDaniel has cerebral palsy and cannot walk or talk. He begins to suspect that his father may be planning to kill him to put him out of his torment. Shawn is happy, but he has no way of communicating this to his father.