Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.2
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
70358
Points per Word
0.000142
Page Count
312
Points per Page
0.032051
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tyler spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.