Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.0
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
48714
Points per Word
0.000144
Description
Orphaned beside a dried out waterhole in the outback, Joe is rescued by Dennis Campbell, an enterprising young cameleer who, with some ingenuity and deception manages to raise the baby girl as his own child.