Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
72944
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
234
Points per Page
0.047009
Description
Thirteen-year-old Danny lives on a cattle station in the Australian outback, where his family struggles to cope with the death of his older brother and his sister's pregnancy by an Aboriginal. The plot contains profanity, gore and racial slurs.