Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
16173
Points per Word
0.000185
Series
Survivors (Barron's)
Description
It is the 1930s and America is in Depression. In an effort to find work, fourteen-year-old Molly travels riding the boxcars. As she rides the freight trains through the cities and the countryside, Molly sees the misery of the Depression at first hand.