Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50280
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
192
Points per Page
0.041667
Description
Robbie wants to join the air war and help defeat the Nazis. Instead of returning to school, he manages to enlist although he is only 17, but nothing in his training has prepared him for the frightening realities of war. The plot contains war violence.