Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
49060
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
218
Points per Page
0.03211
Description
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while her father serves as a doctor in the Union army and tries to keep her friend Marvelous, a free black, safe from rebel soldiers. The plot contains profanity.