Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
3.2
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
1488
Points per Word
0.000336
Page Count
40
Points per Page
0.0125
Description
An old man from Georgia finds a baby abandoned in a Dumpster and raises him in a rough Los Angeles neighborhood to know both African American and Mexican American ways.