Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.6
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
65031
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
241
Points per Page
0.041494
Description
Sixteen-year-old Barney is amnesic but, as a voluntary patient, he knows he is different from terminally ill patients. His involvement with the bitter, slowly dying Mazzo brings Barney hope, pain, and a moment of heroic glory.