Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
38228
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
213
Points per Page
0.028169
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gardner, trying to find some direction to his life, is shocked to discover that his unemployed father considers himself a failure.