Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52627
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
215
Points per Page
0.037209
Description
In 1946, when his father returns from the war, a ten-year-old boy and his family move from the Montana town where they had been living to an old, run-down farm in the middle of nowhere, where they work hard trying to make ends meet.