Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
32595
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
129
Points per Page
0.03876
Description
A fourteen-year-old moves to Florida at the height of World War II to join his father, a Navy seaman. Frank quickly develops such a reputation for exaggeration that when he announces having seen an enemy spy land on the beach, no one believes him.