How long does it take to read Dear Austin?
Letters from the Underground Railroad
Dear Austin by Elvira Woodruff takes about 2 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 31 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1998. 137 pages, about 37,675 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 11 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Dear Austin is a book about Eleven year old Levi and his friends Jupiter and Possum, in Pennsylvania. Throuout the book Levi is writing letters to his older brother Austin. Levi lives with Miss Amelia, Miss Amelia takes care of Levi becuase Levi's mother passed away while giving birth to him. A while later Darcy, Jupiter's sister gets kidnapped by slave cachers. Levi and Jupiter leave Pennsylvania and start serching for Darcy, but they have no luck.
Subjects: African Americans, Country life, Fiction, Fugitive slaves, Juvenile fiction, Letters
