Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.3
Points
0.5
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
2397
Points per Word
0.000209
Description
"I was nine when my family set off for the goldfields. We slept on mattresses stuffed with leaves, ate parrots that Father had shot and fished for yabbies in the creek. Life was completely different." A young girl's recollections of goldmining Australia.