Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.0
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4084
Points per Word
0.000245
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
First Lieutenant David Falvey, a twenty-five-year-old military police officer serving in Baghdad, describes what it is like to be a soldier and fight in a war through a series of letters between him and Mrs. Julie Hutt's fourth-grade class.