Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
37006
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
179
Points per Page
0.03352
Description
Nearing sixty, diagnosed with heart disease and feeling his mortality, Gary Paulsen buys his first Harley-Davidson and rides from his home in New Mexico to Alaska--and from the present into his past, through the landmarks of a singular life.