The Horse-Riding Adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War Messenger cover

The Horse-Riding Adventure of Sybil Ludington, Revolutionary War Messenger

Author: Amstel, Marsha

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 2.9
Points 0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 1128
Points per Word 0.000443
Page Count 32
Points per Page 0.015625

Description

In 1777, on a cold and stormy night in the New York Colony, sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes a dangerous and difficult ride to warn the local militiamen that the British Army is looting and burning nearby Danbury, Connecticut.