Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.7
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
68686
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
295
Points per Page
0.037288
Description
In the summer of 1976, ten-year-old Eli Book's excitement over Bicentennial celebrations is tempered by his father's flashbacks to the Vietnam War and Eli's concern about his troubled best friend, Edie. The plot contains profanity and violence.