Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
27194
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
153
Points per Page
0.026144
Description
Based on the true story of a real boy, fourteen-year-old Johnny Ables is pressed into service in the Confederate army, forced to participate in a major Civil War battle, and ends up in an Indiana prison camp.