Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.0
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33620
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.0375
Description
At age seventeen, Jesse Bowman of Chicago joins the Union Army to fight in the Civil War, having only a romantic notion of what war is all about, but once he enlists, he learns the daily life as a soldier and the hardships and cruelty of battle.