Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33307
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.027624
Description
While coping with his parents' separation, eleven-year-old Skeet spends most of spring break in his skiff on a Florida river, where he finds a manatee shot to death and begins looking for the killer.