Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.4
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
69102
Points per Word
0.000159
Page Count
320
Points per Page
0.034375
Description
Even though London faces nightly air raids in 1941, Joseph is sent there to live with the gruff Mrs. F. She teaches the angry boy how to care for the remaining animals in the city zoo. Text has violence, mild profanity, bullying, criminal activity.