Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
3055
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
This book is a biography of Robert Smalls who, during the Civil War, commandeered the Confederate ship "Planter" to carry his family and twelve other slaves to freedom and went on to become a U.S. congressman working toward African American advancement.