Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
8.1
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
11996
Points per Word
0.000167
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.020833
Series
Snapshots in History
Description
In April 1942, during World War II, tens of thousands of American and Filipino prisoners of the Japanese were forced to march miles on their way to a prison camp in the Philippines. Only about 50,000 men of the original 70,000 survived the march.