Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.2
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
74968
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
403
Points per Page
0.027295
Series
NO OFFICIAL SERIES TITLE
Description
Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations, violence, and racist remarks.