Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.3
Points
25.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
155960
Points per Word
0.00016
Description
Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are in love. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie is condemned by her parents. Captures the mood of Australian life from 1907 until 1931.