Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37737
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
176
Points per Page
0.034091
Description
Jimmy Cannon tells about his life in the 1940s as the son of a West Virginia railroad man, loving the trains and expecting one day to work on the railroad like his father and brothers.