Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
31069
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
179
Points per Page
0.022346
Description
Eleven-year-old rich kid Cricket thinks she has finally found a friend in Dominic, who lives in the low-income houses called crackerboxes, until they quarrel over ownership of a dog and their classroom becomes a courtroom to decide who is right.