Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
35841
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
188
Points per Page
0.031915
Series
Dear America
Description
In 1968 Massachusetts, after her brother Patrick goes to fight in Vietnam, fifteen-year-old Molly records in her diary how she misses her brother, volunteers at a Veterans' Administration Hospital, and tries to make sense of the Vietnam War.