Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
5.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1481
Points per Word
0.000338
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
This book presents the story of how an American pilot participated in the Berlin Airlift and decided to drop candy for the German children caught behind the post-World-War II Soviet blockade, an effort intended to heal the wounds of war.