Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.1
Points
21.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
129921
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
496
Points per Page
0.042339
Description
In this memoir, the author discusses the unrelated deaths of his parents within months of one another, and tells how he came to take responsibility for his eight-year-old brother. The text contains profanity, sexual situations, and graphic violence.