Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43506
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
188
Points per Page
0.031915
Description
In 1944 a 15-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead, enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.