Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.0
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
55042
Points per Word
0.000145
Page Count
208
Points per Page
0.038462
Description
In the 1920's, ten-year-old Rudy goes to Chicago to live with his rich great-aunt Gussie. She is an imperious and outspoken woman dedicated to doing good works. Rudy falls in with a boy aspiring to become a mobster.