Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.6
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39582
Points per Word
0.000152
Page Count
155
Points per Page
0.03871
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick loves baseball, so after a year in the hospital fighting polio and with a brace on one leg, Nick takes a job with the team for which his father is catcher and gets to see the great pitcher, Satchel Paige, play during the 1935 season.