Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
56004
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
261
Points per Page
0.034483
Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.