Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
11513
Points per Word
0.000174
Page Count
223
Points per Page
0.008969
Description
Twelve-year-old Cindy has just dipped a toe into seventh-grade drama with its complicated friendships, bullies, and cute boys when she earns an internship as a cub reporter at a local newspaper in the early 1970s.