Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27036
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
When his wounded father is sent home early from Vietnam, Luke finds it difficult to adjust to the troubled, emotionally shaken man who seems so unlike the fearless hero of his dreams.