Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
4.9
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
9865
Points per Word
0.000101
Description
Told from the perspective of a young aboriginal boy and his grandfather, this story is based on the account given in Ludwig Leichardt's journal of his crossing Australia from the Darling downs near Sydney to Port Essington, near Darwin in 1844.