Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
26154
Points per Word
0.000191
Page Count
129
Points per Page
0.03876
Description
The Lone Star State furnished a greater percentage of troops for the Civil War than any other state. More than 60,000 Texans, many of whom were under twenty-one years of age, fought east and west of the Mississippi River.