Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
26160
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
A fatherless white boy, who shares with an old black man an enthusiasm for the Brooklyn Dodgers and first baseman Jackie Robinson, takes a ball autographed by Jackie to his elderly friend's death bed.