Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
51184
Points per Word
0.000137
Page Count
270
Points per Page
0.025926
Description
Eleven-year-old Augie dreams of escaping his run-down New Jersey neighborhood, but things start to turn around with help from a Big Brother, a music teacher, and a bookstore owner, so when his school is in trouble, he pulls the community together.