How long does it take to read Butterfly Yellow?
Butterfly Yellow by Thanhha Lai takes about 5 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2019. 312 pages, about 85,800 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 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Vietnam War refugee in Texas partners with a city boy with rodeo dreams to track down the younger brother she was separated from six years before when he was evacuated by American troops during the waning days of the Vietnam War.
Subjects: Refugees, Juvenile fiction, Vietnamese, Brothers and sisters, Historical fiction, Fiction
