Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades Plus (MG+ 6 and up)
Book Level
5.1
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
47833
Points per Word
0.000146
Page Count
232
Points per Page
0.030172
Description
In the blinding heat of 1970s Queensland, 12-year-old Cecilia learns the difference between real and imagined abuse as she battles six brothers and the despised Kapernicky girls from the farm next door. The plot contains profanity and sexual references.