Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.1
Points
4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
28924
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
152
Points per Page
0.026316
Description
With their mother in the hospital and their father's whereabouts unknown, two boys take to the streets of New York to escape being sent to a children's shelter.