Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
22032
Points per Word
0.000182
Page Count
160
Points per Page
0.025
Series
Great Episodes
Description
In the bitter winter of 1775-76, Colonel Henry Knox and his younger brother Will, frustrated with the British blockade of Boston, attempt to move 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, over 300 miles of mountainous wilderness, to defend the besieged city.