Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4291
Points per Word
0.000233
Series
Stories of America
Description
Uses the experiences of an unemployed steel worker and his family in Pittsburgh to describe the events of the economic depression that gripped the country from 1929 through 1933.