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City of Orphans

Author: Avi

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 3.5
Points 8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 60087
Points per Word 0.000133
Page Count 368
Points per Page 0.021739

Description

In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand-new Waldorf Hotel, where she works.