Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
41920
Points per Word
0.000143
Page Count
196
Points per Page
0.030612
Description
Thirteen-year-old Kenny secretly calls himself Cricket Man after a summer of rescuing creatures from his family's Maryland pool, which gives him more self-confidence and an urge to be a hero, especially for his depressed sixteen-year-old neighbor.