Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
19733
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
135
Points per Page
0.022222
Description
In 1862, as William Burd fights in the Civil War, he exchanges letters with his sister, Sallie, who is also writing to Confederate and Union generals asking about their horses in order to write a book.