Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.9
Points
23.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
141977
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
464
Points per Page
0.049569
Description
Frank McCourt and his siblings grow up in the slums of Limerick, Ireland, with an alcoholic father and a mother who wishes she could just feed her children.