Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.7
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50315
Points per Word
0.000139
Page Count
224
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In a small Iowa town in 1952, eleven-year-old Charlie, whose father died in the Korean War, learns the meanings of both racism and heroism when he befriends a black man who had played baseball in the Negro Leagues. The coauthor is Ron J. Findley.