Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.4
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
12705
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
The Great Depression, the outbreak of worldwide economic hardships, unemployment, and poverty that occurred one-third of the way into the twentieth century, defined the lives of those who lived through it and for many decades afterward.