How long does it take to read Children of the Dust?
Louise Lawrence
Children of the Dust by Louise Lawrence takes about 3 hours 21 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 21 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1985. 183 pages, about 50,325 words. Written for young adults.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 36 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 21 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 6 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After a nuclear war devastates the earth, a small band of people struggles for survival in a new world where children are born with strange mutations.
Subjects: Fiction, Nuclear warfare, Science fiction, Survival, Teaching, Young adult fiction
