Shutting out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924 cover

Shutting out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880-1924

Author: Hopkinson, Deborah

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 6.8
Points 4.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 21095
Points per Word 0.00019
Page Count 134
Points per Page 0.029851

Description

Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.