Bibliograph

Type

Label

Dave at night, Gail Carson Levine

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

Middle School490, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Dave at night

Oclc number

40311547

Responsibility statement

Gail Carson Levine

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, 3.6.Reading Counts!, 6.1.Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 3.6, 8.0, 35635.Reading Counts RC, 6-8, 6.1, 14, Quiz: 20831, Guided reading level: NR.

Summary

When orphaned Dave is sent to the Hebrew Home for Boys where he is treated cruelly, he sneaks out at night and is welcomed into the music- and culture-filled world of the Harlem Renaissance. The next song was slow, and the trumpet was more important than the piano. I closed my eyes. The trumpet purred and hummed, and sometimes it sang so sweetly it could have been a lullaby. I leaned my head back against the wall behind my chair. I wondered if Irma Lee knew how to do the Charleston. I didn't know anything about dancing. But if I tried it, I knew she wouldn't laugh at me. I'd be her friend, just like I promised I would. I'd be her friend even if I had to climb down the walls of the asylum to go to see her

Target audience

pre adolescent

Creator