Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
92467
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
352
Points per Page
0.039773
Description
In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys of L.A.’s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, attend a writing class and write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars.