Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43823
Points per Word
0.00016
Page Count
239
Points per Page
0.029289
Description
With her father and brothers gone to serve in the Civil War and her mother sick, thirteen-year-old Valor ignores what is proper behavior for a girl, and takes matters into her own hands to defend her North Carolina family.