Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.6
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25296
Points per Word
0.000119
Page Count
125
Points per Page
0.024
Description
Joe's decision to leave home is prompted by despair over his mother's blindness to his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction.