Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28463
Points per Word
0.000141
Page Count
147
Points per Page
0.027211
Description
In 1915, mortally wounded in Loos, France, eighteen-year-old John Kipling, son of writer Rudyard Kipling, remembers his boyhood and the events leading to what is to be his first and last World War I battle.