Wally and friends join the Boy Scouts the all say 12 yrs old and 8th grade. It would seem that they would have been 6th or 7th grade if they were 12. The age was partly for the plot point of joining the Boy Scouts. Where did they live? Does anyone have any idea what cutoff dates would’ve been in Ohio, Washington, Oregon, California, or any other state where it may have been set?