Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.6
Points
12.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
79182
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
288
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
Wolff's account of his boyhood and the process of growing up includes paper routes, whiskey, scouting, fistfights, friendship, betrayal, and America in the 1950s.