Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.9
Points
8.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
50687
Points per Word
0.000158
Description
After the death of her parents on the ship to Australia, sixteen year old Sarah is left to care for her baby brother. She falls in love with her home on the edge of the wilderness and is drawn into a relationship with an Aboriginal woman and her son.