Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
8.3
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
59965
Points per Word
0.000183
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.049107
Description
This book recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.