Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23704
Points per Word
0.000169
Page Count
144
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
In letters to an elderly pen pal, eleven-year-old Julie describes dealing with her younger brother, painful juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, and struggling to finish a fund-raising race on crutches.