Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40427
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
336
Points per Page
0.017857
Description
A bitter 83-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past explain what his years on Earth really meant. The plot contains profanity.