Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
22282
Points per Word
0.000135
Page Count
262
Points per Page
0.01145
Description
Poems tell the story of how thirteen-year-old Allie, living with her grandparents in a small Minnesota town in the 1960s, struggles to cope with her father's recent death, being abandoned by her mother, and trying to fit in at school.