Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Lower Grades (LG K-3)
Book Level
4.7
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
1608
Points per Word
0.000311
Page Count
36
Points per Page
0.013889
Description
This picture-book biography introduces African American Melba Doretta Liston, who played the trombone and composed and arranged music for many of the greatest jazz musicians of the twentieth century.