Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.8
Points
10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66335
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
284
Points per Page
0.035211
Description
After his plane is shot down by Hitler's Luftwaffe, nineteen-year-old Henry Forester of Richmond, Virginia, strives to walk across occupied France, with the help of the French Resistance, in hopes of rejoining his unit.