Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.3
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
39042
Points per Word
0.000154
Page Count
187
Points per Page
0.032086
Description
Thirteen-year-old Toby, a prematurely gray-haired Pittsburgh Pirates fan and baseball card collector, tries to cope with his brother's drug use, his father's absence, and his mother dating Stanley the Food King.