Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
22449
Points per Word
0.000134
Description
As the American Civil War rages, William Harvey Carney - a formerly enslaved man - joins the ranks of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first all-Black regiments in the Union Army, and takes part in the assault on Fort Wagner.