Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
34383
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
165
Points per Page
0.030303
Description
In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old saxophonist Mark Purvis struggles to advance his jazz career while working as a gopher for the new Africa American magazine, THE CRISIS, and becoming involved with mobster Dutch Schultz.