Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.2
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39633
Points per Word
0.000151
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie and her younger brother, Ted, try to cope with their turbulent emotions, as well as with their grandmother's terrible anger and grief, after their father kills their mother and then commits suicide.