Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific cover

Pure Grit: How American World War II Nurses Survived Battle and Prison Camp in the Pacific

Author: Farrell, Mary Cronk

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level 7.0
Points 7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 38292
Points per Word 0.000183
Page Count 160
Points per Page 0.04375

Description

Photographs and first-person accounts share stories of nurses who enlisted for peacetime duty in the U.S. Army but ended up in grave danger as they fulfilled their duty and honored their vocation in WWII. The plot contains descriptions of war violence.