Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47584
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
280
Points per Page
0.025
Description
Feeling abandoned by his parents, who have gone their separate ways and left him behind in a small Pennsylvania town, seventeen-year-old Jay finds hope for the future in a church-sponsored basketball team and a female friend.