Book
The Water Babies
- Published
- 1863
- Genre
- SciFi/Fantasy
- Publisher
- IndyPublish
- Pages
- 224
- Words
- 58097
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42573.The_Water_Babies?ac=1&from_search=true
Reading measures
- Accelerated Reader level
- 8.3
- AR interest level
- MG — middle grades, 4–8
- Lexile
- 1070L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 11–13
- Ambleside year
- Year 3 onwards · ages 8–11
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
Tom, a poor orphan, is employed by the villainous chimney-sweep, Grimes, to climb up inside flues to clear away the soot. While engaged in this dreadful task, he loses his way and emerges in the bedroom of Ellie, the young daughter of the house who mistakes him for a thief. He runs away, and, hot and bothered, he slips into a cooling stream, falls fast asleep, and becomes a water baby.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781404339514
- ISBN-10
- 1404339515
Tags
Behavior-MeannessClassicsFantasy/Imagination-MagicFantasy/Imagination-WishesWinnetka Graded Book List, 1926