Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
26.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
160848
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
493
Points per Page
0.052738
Description
Ten-year-old Bobby Smith, son of the local pharmacist and the host of the radio show "Neighbor Dorothy," grows to manhood in Elmwood, Missouri, observing the people and the changes that affect the small town in the decades after the end of World War II.