Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
4.7
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
91125
Points per Word
0.000143
Description
In 1859, in New Plymouth, Hannah Carstairs walks between the two worlds of her English father and her Maori step-mother. When the tensions between the Maori and the settlers boil over into war, Hannah and her twin brother must flee to England.