Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27862
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
122
Points per Page
0.032787
Description
Jumping freight trains during the Great Depression leads fourteen-year-old Collie to a friendship with men and boys on their way to "somewhere else."