Code Girls: The True Story of the American Women Who Secretly Broke Codes in World War II
Author: Mundy, Liza
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
7.7
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
54301
Points per Word
0.000184
Page Count
320
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
More than 10,000 women served as code breakers during World War II, recruited by the army and navy. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to the nation's capital to learn the top-secret art of code breaking.