Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
4.8
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
27313
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
134
Points per Page
0.029851
Description
The author presents 115 short essays about life in New York's South Bronx. Not only do drugs, violence, gangs, police, and misrepresentations by the media fill the book, but so does his positive outlook on life. The coauthor is Carmine DeSena.