Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.5
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
36202
Points per Word
0.000138
Page Count
207
Points per Page
0.024155
Description
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior.