The Smuggler's Curse cover

Reading Metrics

Grade Level Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level 5.7
Points 10.0
Fiction/Nonfiction Fiction
Word Count 63167
Points per Word 0.000158

Description

Red Read’s life takes a surprising and alarming turn when his mother sells him to a smuggler plying his trade off the north-west coast of Australia in the closing days of the 19th century. Text includes graphic violence. Themes include racial prejudice.