How long does it take to read Call Me Maria?
Call Me Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer takes about 2 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 30 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2004. 136 pages, about 37,400 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Puerto Ricans, Identity, Identity (Psychology), Identity, fiction
