Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32933
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
131
Points per Page
0.038168
Description
In this fact-based story, fourteen-year-old drummer boy Orion Howe displays great bravery during a Civil War battle at Vicksburg.