Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
86363
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
400
Points per Page
0.0325
Description
Seventeen-year-old Frankie Green yearns to leave Jamaica and study in the United States, but when his father is shot, he is forced to give up his scholarship and join his uncle Joe's gang. Text has profanity, violence, racism, and illegal drug use.