Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1559
Points per Word
0.000321
Page Count
36
Points per Page
0.013889
Description
On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers' season opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball.