Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44252
Points per Word
0.000158
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.033654
Description
Louis, who loves baseball despite being the worst stickball player in White Plains, New York, sees his opportunity to be batboy for the 1961 Yankees team as the perfect way to escape the problems of his father's remarriage and moving to the suburbs.