Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.0
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
2977
Points per Word
0.000168
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Readers learn about the boys too young to fight in combat, but showed their courage by marching to battle as drummer boys. Like any other soldiers in the war, they risk being wounded, captured, or killed in action during the Civil War.