Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27704
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
198
Points per Page
0.020202
Description
Thirteen-year-old Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the summer before.