Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
52179
Points per Word
0.000153
Page Count
270
Points per Page
0.02963
Description
Ten-year-old Bud is a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression. He escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.