Although Yetta the chicken manages to escape the butcher's knife, she finds herself lost on the streets of Brooklyn until she befriends the wild parrots there, in a text which has some Yiddish and Spanish phrases. Interest Level: K-3 Reading Level: 2.4 ATOS Book Level: 2 AR Interest Level: LG AR Points: .5 AR Quiz: 140857EN Reading Counts Level: 1.2 Reading Counts Points: 1 Lexile Measure: 350 Lexile Code: AD (Adult Directed). Teaching Books: https://school.teachingbooks.net/tb.cgi?tid=20561.