Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.5
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
77727
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
261
Points per Page
0.049808
Description
This gritty tragicomic memoir is set in one memorable year, 1976, the Bicentennial, when Jimmy Carter ran for president and seven-year-old Doug Crandell lost two fingers in a farming accident.