Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
9368
Points per Word
0.000107
Series
Stories of America
Description
Describes the ordeal of Major Fred Cherry, who was shot down in combat over Vietnam and spent 7 and 1/2 years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.