How long does it take to read Buried Onions?
Buried Onions by Gary Soto takes about 2 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1997. 149 pages, about 40,975 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 33 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Violence, Fiction, Mexican Americans, Children's fiction, Violence, fiction
