Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
54027
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
227
Points per Page
0.035242
Description
In Iowa in the 1970s, twelve-year-old Tex overcomes his self-consciousness about his deformed right hand to take baseball lessons from his stepfather and his tomboy stepsister, who harbors a dark secret.