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How long does it take to read Armageddon Summer?

Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville

Armageddon Summer by Jane Yolen, Bruce Coville takes about 4 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 53 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1998. 266 pages, about 73,150 words. Written for children.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 8 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 53 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 3 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

The world will end on Thursday, July 27, 2000. At least, that's what Reverend Beelson has told his congregation. Marina's mom believes him. So does Jed's dad. That's why they drag Marina and Jed to join the reverend's flock at a mountain retreat. From the mountaintop they will all watch the Righteous Conflagration that will end this world--and then they will descend and begin the world anew. But this world has only just begun for Jed and Marina, two teenagers with more attitude than faith. Why should the world end now, when they've just fallen in love? Told in alternating chapters from both Jed's and Marina's points of view, this first-ever collaboration between two masters of children's literature is a story about faith and friendship, love and loss . . . and the things that matter most at the End of the World.

Subjects: Cults, Young adult fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Religions, fiction

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