Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
45092
Points per Word
0.000133
Page Count
184
Points per Page
0.032609
Description
Three teenaged cousins worry about their uncle who is missing in Vietnam, their brothers, the one who was drafted and the two who are dodging the draft, and the effects of their absence on the four generations gathered at the farm in the summer of 1965.