Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.5
Points
13.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
83339
Points per Word
0.000156
Page Count
325
Points per Page
0.04
Description
In 1910, based on true events, Poesy and Tilly travel by steam train into India, singing and dancing across a hundred stages as members of a troupe of Australian child performers. As one disaster follows another, money runs short and tempers fray.