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Jacqueline Woodson

Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 31 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2016. 192 pages, about 52,800 words.

8 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 5 hours 52 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 31 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 12 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

For August, running into a long-ago friend sets in motion resonant memories and transports her to a time and a place she thought she had mislaid: 1970s Brooklyn, where friendship was everything. August, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi shared confidences as they ambled their neighborhood streets, a place where the girls believed that they were amazingly beautiful, brilliantly talented, with a future that belonged to them. But beneath the hopeful promise there was another Brooklyn, a dangerous place where grown men reached for innocent girls in dark hallways, where mothers disappeared, where fathers found religion, and where madness was a mere sunset away. Woodson heartbreakingly illuminates the formative period when a child meets adulthood -- when precious innocence meets the all-too-real perils of growing up. --

Subjects: New york (n.y.), fiction, Fiction, african american, historical, Friendship, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, African americans, fiction, Fiction, general

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