Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
62399
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
242
Points per Page
0.03719
Description
Twelve-year-old Clare flees an unhappy home life and tries to survive on the streets of Atlantic City with a small gang of homeless kids, each of whom has his own secret reason for distrusting society.