Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37797
Points per Word
0.000132
Page Count
190
Points per Page
0.026316
Description
Frustrated by his life of near-poverty and the unreliability of his divorced, drunken father, thirteen-year-old Scott throws himself into a science project raising clams to restock the bay of his Maine village.