Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.5
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2031
Points per Word
0.000246
Page Count
32
Points per Page
0.015625
Description
Convinced that expensive new shoes are his ticket to playing professional basketball, a boy is stunned to find that he can be beaten by Mokey, a poor, younger boy from Harlem who plays barefoot.