Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.6
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
6091
Points per Word
0.000164
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.025
Series
American Heroes (Hyperion)
Description
This is the story of Robert Smalls, a slave who became a hero after hijacking a Confederate steamer during the Civil War and turning it over to the Union, and who later served as a U.S. congressman from South Carolina.