Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1382
Points per Word
0.000362
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.010417
Description
This book relates how 100 young schoolgirls, many of them orphans, and their teachers managed to escape the chaos of the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, l944, by taking shelter in an iron mine for thirty-eight days.