Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
11.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
66911
Points per Word
0.000164
Description
Bridie's world is torn apart when her parents and baby brother die in the Great Hunger. She leaves Ireland, and strikes out alone to claim a life for herself in Australia, on the other side of the ocean. First in a series of four.