Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
3.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
37751
Points per Word
0.000132
Page Count
218
Points per Page
0.022936
Description
Eleven-year-old Bobby Burns has grown up happily in a traditional northeastern coastal community. But life is changing: grammar school, his father's illness and the all-too-real Cuban Missile Crisis threaten his world. Challenging content.