Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
47953
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
206
Points per Page
0.033981
Description
Rex Ogle recounts his first semester in sixth grade, in which he and his younger brother went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies. The story contains profanity, physical and emotions abuse, and risky behavior by children.