Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
21659
Points per Word
0.000139
Description
Eleven-year-old Larch has depended on her own rules to help her cope with the life she and her mother share in a trailer in a small Ohio town, but her rules do not help her deal with a rat-catching dog, her best friend's crush, or her father's death.