Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
69802
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
293
Points per Page
0.03413
Description
Playing war games to train for the Hitler Youth in Germany, twelve-year-old Karl finds his loyalties changing in the wake of his father's murder and his brother's membership in a shadow rebel group.