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Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 5.2
Points 12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 76823
Points per Word 0.000156
Page Count 229
Points per Page 0.052402

Description

Christy Bannister, a fourteen-year-old boy, forms a unique friendship with a twenty-three-year-old quadriplegic who lives in an iron lung and teaches Christy some important lessons about life and love.