Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47166
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
186
Points per Page
0.037634
Description
During the Civil War, a twelve-year-old Bowery Boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.