Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.1
Points
18.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
119589
Points per Word
0.000151
Description
Student essays, scholarship committee notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at a New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s.