Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
64196
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
368
Points per Page
0.027174
Description
Stephen, an accomplished bugler in the town band, joins the Union effort in the Civil War and endures trial after trial, from battle to Confederate prison and the shipwreck of the steamboat "Sultana." Through luck and fortitude, Stephen survives.