Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48045
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
400
Points per Page
0.0175
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the space shuttle "Challenger," they each struggle with their own personal anxieties.