Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.6
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2083
Points per Word
0.00024
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
A woman reminisces about her neighbor’s son, who was the object of a letter-writing campaign by some fourth-graders when he went away to war in 1943.