Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
3.8
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
10576
Points per Word
9.5e-05
Page Count
84
Points per Page
0.011905
Description
In 1953, nine-year-old Sam moves with his mother from West Virginia to Brooklyn and finds that his grandfather, a well-liked neighborhood character nicknamed Bugsy, does not seem to want him in his life.