Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.3
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
15534
Points per Word
0.000129
Page Count
88
Points per Page
0.022727
Description
When the school in Mayfield Crossing is closed, the students are sent to larger schools, where the black children encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Only baseball seems a possibility for drawing people together.