Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.6
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42982
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
167
Points per Page
0.041916
Description
Stories, loosely based on the author's experiences growing up in a small town in Illinois in the 1950s, touch upon topics as race relations, unwanted cats, the Episcopal faith, and homosexuality. The plots contain profanity and sexual situations.