Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
23588
Points per Word
0.000127
Page Count
128
Points per Page
0.023438
Description
Named after the greatest baseball player of all time, eleven-year-old Ruth dreams of becoming a major league baseball player, until she overhears her father lamenting the fact that she is a girl.