Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36658
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
172
Points per Page
0.02907
Description
A crisis arises heading into the playoffs when the league imposes a mandatory certification exam on all of the umps. Mann point-blank refuses. The boys cook up schemes, ratcheting up the stakes each time, in an effort to get Mann back behind the plate.