Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
25224
Points per Word
0.000159
Description
While eleven-year-old Hugh, his family, and his cousin Tom are spending the summer of 1943 on the South Carolina shore to escape the polio epidemic, Hugh uncovers clues that point to a German plot to sabotage a nearby naval base.