Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
40616
Points per Word
0.000148
Page Count
181
Points per Page
0.033149
Description
Eleven-year-old Phillip's dream of running away from the circus comes true when his parents allow him to stay with relatives in Hardingtown, Pennsylvania, where dodgeball is practically a religion and life is anything but normal.