Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41499
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In the summer of 1960, twelve-year-old Lou Ann begins to keep a diary, detailing her life on a Texas wheat farm with her crazy, drunken mother and her philandering father.