Publisher's Synopsis
Read Gold Fever! to find out the answers to these questions. Why is gold a special metal? What is a gold rush and why would people go to a country where there is a gold rush? How were Chinese immigrants treated on the goldfields? What was the Eureka Stockade and what effects did it have on the colony of Victoria and on Australia? How did the gold rushes in the Australian colonies in the 1800s change Australia forever? This reader is classified as Reading Level 29-30+ / Fountas and Pinnell Level T-V. Visit our Levelled readers page for further information on reading levels.