Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.4
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
63835
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
290
Points per Page
0.031034
Description
After the death of his beloved older brother, Hector, in World War I, sixteen-year-old Edward leaves the family farm in Canada to enlist in Hector’s batallion, where he attempts to come to terms with what has happened.