Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.5
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40065
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
182
Points per Page
0.032967
Description
Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch.