Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.6
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
60120
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
274
Points per Page
0.032847
Description
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.