Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56677
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
202
Points per Page
0.044554
Description
Fifteen-year-old Gary, pulled by conflicting influences of his father, girlfriend, and criminally-inclined best friends, longs for escape from his suffocating small-town life in Indiana. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, and drug use.