Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.4
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
58662
Points per Word
0.000136
Page Count
294
Points per Page
0.027211
Description
It's Christmas Eve in Harlem, but 12-year-old Lolly and his mom are not celebrating. They are still reeling from his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting a few months earlier. The plot contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.