Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.7
Points
14.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
81203
Points per Word
0.000172
Page Count
284
Points per Page
0.049296
Description
When eleven-year-old Michael Keith is transferred to the care of his estranged, alcoholic father, the pair set off hitchhiking out West and Michael spends the rest of his childhood crisscrossing the country perpetually en route to someplace else.