Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
8031
Points per Word
0.000125
Page Count
113
Points per Page
0.00885
Description
A series of vignettes in free verse in which the writer reminisces about his life as a twelve-year-old boy living in a small town during the hot summer of 1938.