Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.5
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55434
Points per Word
0.000144
Page Count
288
Points per Page
0.027778
Description
With his father in jail and his mother working full-time, fourteen-year-old Billy Baggs finds himself in charge of running the family farm in northern Minnesota and having to give up the thing he loves most--baseball.