Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.6
Points
3.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
17268
Points per Word
0.000174
Description
It is 1961 and Gloria Charles is travelling from the West Indies to start a new life in Britain. She records how she and her family cope as they struggle to establish themselves in a cold and rainy land.