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.