Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.2
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
111774
Points per Word
0.000161
Page Count
334
Points per Page
0.053892
Description
William Thornhill is deported to the New South Wales colony where he struggles to wrest a new life for his family from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people.