Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
13344
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
102
Points per Page
0.019608
Description
This book contains alternating poems about two different boys--Perry, whose father is missing in action in Vietnam, and Steve, who loves the train that cuts across his farm and dreams of a life not weighed down by farm chores.