Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.0
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
20562
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.023438
Description
Author Gary Paulsen relates tales from his youth in a small town in northwestern Minnesota in the late 1940s and early 1950s, such as skiing behind a souped-up car and imitating daredevil Evel Knievel.