Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40225
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
178
Points per Page
0.033708
Description
Ordered to practice his writing skills, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.