Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.4
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4911
Points per Word
0.000204
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Twelve-year-old Robert Henry Hendershot runs away from home to become a drummer boy for the Union Army. While his company prepares for the Battle of Fredericksburg, he sneaks across the Rappahannock and captures a Rebel soldier.