How long does it take to read A Girl Named Disaster?
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer takes about 5 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 315 pages, about 86,625 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 12 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Supernatural, Survival, Shona (African people), Shona (African people) -- Fiction
