Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.0
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57772
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
249
Points per Page
0.036145
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mississippi schoolboy Sam Wood learns about honor, courage, and friendship while serving on the "CSS Arkansas," a Confederate ironclad gunboat, in the early days of the Civil War.