Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53804
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
272
Points per Page
0.029412
Description
In Conners, Georgia, 1974, fourteen-year-old Darcy tries to deal with her mother's battle with breast cancer as she also faces new feelings for an outcast senior at her school and learns that the war in Vietnam is more than a school project.