Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33460
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
156
Points per Page
0.032051
Description
Fourteen-year-old Chris learns a difficult lesson about the waste of war and the meaning of tolerance and courage when he reports the approach of a Yankee supply troop to the Confederates.