Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40028
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
In 1940, thirteen-year-old Tommy's routine of school, playing stickball in his Bronx neighborhood, talking with his friend Beth, and listening to Dodgers games on the radio changes as his mother's illness and the war in Europe transform his world.