Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.8
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
19355
Points per Word
0.000155
Page Count
109
Points per Page
0.027523
Description
This book details accounts of Lowe's efforts to provide intelligence to Union forces during the American Civil War, detailing how he telegraphed messages to the War Department in Washington from a silk hydrogen balloon that floated over the battlefield.