Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.0
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
82775
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
280
Points per Page
0.046429
Description
A boy raised in a remote village in Vermont by his honky-tonk mother and crippled grandmother shares the town's obsession with baseball and the Boston Red Sox, and with the coaching of Teddy Williams.