Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.8
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
30743
Points per Word
0.000163
Description
During the Civil War, fourteen-year-old Henry finds adventure working as a ship's boy and lookout aboard the "Banshee," a new British ship attempting to get past the Yankee blockade of the Southern coast.