AR Book Level
5.4
AR Points
9
Word Count
56,814
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Fiction
AR Quiz #
231616 EN
About this book
Born of a brief encounter between his mother and an African-American soldier in Liverpool in 1907, Beck is orphaned as a young boy and sent overseas to the Catholic Brothers in Canada. Contains sexual violence, swearing, and sexual slang.