Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66941
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
261
Points per Page
0.038314
Description
In Dover, England, in 1940, fourteen-year-old Alec Curtis wants nothing more than to go to sea, to absolve himself of the guilt he feels over the earlier drowning of his cousin and to help the war effort.