Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.1
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
53118
Points per Word
0.000151
Description
When Birdie is sent to live with her great-aunt in 1950s Yorkshire, she faces racial discrimination and bullying. Then she meets and befriends a pit pony who lives in the local coal mine.