Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
9.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
57408
Points per Word
0.000157
Page Count
290
Points per Page
0.031034
Description
In 1887, Italian eleven-year-old Rocco arrives in New York City, where he is forced to live in squalor and beg for money as a street musician. He finds the city's cruelty to children and animals intolerable and sets out to change things.