Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.6
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52777
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.035714
Description
In America during the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Josh must make his own way through a country of angry and frightened people. This is the story of a young man's struggle to find a life for himself in the turbulent thirties.