Interest Level
Grades 6 - 8
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 6.7
Lexile Measure®: 840L
DRA: 40
Guided Reading: S
Genre
- General Fiction
Theme/Subject
- Character and Values
- Culture and Diversity
- Friends and Friendship
Reading Quiz Programs
About This Book
Going to the park to broaden his horizons, fourteen-year-old babysitter Enid enjoys unexpected friendships with a bag lady and a black saxophonist.About the Authors or Illustrators
Two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Today she lives and writes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a house dominated by a very shaggy Tibetan terrier named Bandit. Her hobbies include gardening, knitting, and photography. Her own photos appear on the covers of her award-winning books Number the Stars and The Giver.
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