Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.7
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
18159
Points per Word
0.000165
Page Count
96
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.