Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1324
Points per Word
0.000378
Page Count
25
Points per Page
0.02
Description
A grandfather vividly describes to his grandson a typical day from the 1950s, when he worked as a peddler selling fresh fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon throughout the city with the boy's father as his helper.