Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
59831
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
222
Points per Page
0.040541
Description
Because her partner continues to abuse her, seventeen-year-old Melissa takes their young child and goes to a shelter for battered women where she begins the healing process.