Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.8
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
12611
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
216
Points per Page
0.009259
Description
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in NYC, as they come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their stepbrothers.