Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49205
Points per Word
0.000163
Page Count
162
Points per Page
0.049383
Description
In 1861, Charley, a twelve-year-old drummer boy with the Army of the Potomac, is caught up in the excitement and horrors of the Civil War as he travels from Washington towards Antietam. The coauthor is Jacqueline Cosgrove Shields.