Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
14719
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
202
Points per Page
0.009901
Description
A boy grows up in an optimistic and ambitious era of technological promise from 1939-1975, amid developments in industry such as rockets and the atomic bomb, while learning from his father and holding onto his hopes for the future.