How long does it take to read Black Rabbit Summer?
Black Rabbit Summer by Kevin Brooks takes about 8 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 57 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2008. 488 pages, about 134,200 words. Written for children.
18 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Pete Boland was busy doing nothing that summer. Long, stiflingly hot, lazy days stretched ahead of him. Then she called.'Listen, Pete ...you know that funfair, up at the recreation ground ...I thought we could all meet up ...You know, for old times' sake.'But, where there are old times, there are old tensions. And as secrets, bitterness and jealousies resurface, five old friends are plunged into the worst night of their lives . . .Teenage readers will find it impossible to tear themselves away from this dark, tense and gripping new novel from award-winning Kevin Brooks.
Subjects: Young Adult Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Carnivals, Homosexuality, Missing persons
