Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36179
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
185
Points per Page
0.027027
Description
In 1945, 12-year-old Patrick and his younger brother stowaway on the USS "Indianapolis" in a desperate attempt to get back to the Philippines where they last saw their parents just before the Japanese invasion. The plot contains violence.