Rotters and Squatters: 1820-1850 cover

Rotters and Squatters: 1820-1850

Author: French, Jackie

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 7.4
Points 5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Nonfiction
Word Count 28539
Points per Word 0.000175

Description

From 1820 to 1850, Australia saw new colonies founded and squatters taking the best land. Clashes with the Indigenous population were inevitable and often brutal. As the supply of convict labour dried up, free settlers began arriving. Book #3