Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54518
Points per Word
0.000147
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.037037
Description
In 1944, while her brother is overseas fighting in World War II, eleven-year-old Margaret gets a new view of the school bully Gordy when she finds him hiding his own brother, an army deserter, and decides to help him.