Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
42195
Points per Word
0.000166
Page Count
280
Points per Page
0.025
Description
In verse, four siblings tell their story of trying to make ends meet after the deaths of their parents in a town coping with the effects of the Depression and the loss of their young men to the war. The plot contains profanity and violence.