Birdland cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level 4.4
Points 4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 27704
Points per Word 0.000144
Page Count 198
Points per Page 0.020202

Description

Thirteen-year-old Jed spends Christmas break working on a school project filming a documentary about his East Village, New York City, neighborhood, where he is continually reminded of his older brother, Zeke, a promising poet who died the summer before.