Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota
Author: Bauer, Marion Dane
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
5.9
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
43219
Points per Word
0.000162
Page Count
221
Points per Page
0.031674
Series
Dear America
Description
Fourteen-year-old Polly Rodgers keeps a diary of her 1873 journey from England to Minnesota as part of a colony of eighty people seeking religious freedom, and of their first year struggling to make a life there, led by her father, a Baptist minister.