How long does it take to read A Family Apart?
A Family Apart by Joan Lowery Nixon takes about 2 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Orphan Train Adventures
Next: Caught in the Act
About 2 hours 58 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1987. 162 pages, about 44,550 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When their widowed mother can no longer support them, six siblings are sent on the orphan train by the Children's Aid Society of New York City to live with farm families in Missouri in 1860.
Subjects: Family, fiction, Foster home care, Fiction, Brothers and sisters, Children's fiction, Friendship, fiction
