Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.6
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
85633
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.047794
Series
Twentieth Century Classics
Description
A bus is traveling California's back roads, transporting the lost and the lonely, the good and the greedy, the stupid and the scheming, the beautiful and the vicious -- away from their shattered dreams and, possibly, toward the promise of the future.