Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
15402
Points per Word
0.00013
Description
Exploring a bombed house one day, a lonely London boy makes a friend whose father is an RAF pilot. But it takes real danger to make him realise the difference between the heroism of fantasy and what people do when their courage is needed for real.