How long does it take to read Don't Hurt Laurie!?
Don't Hurt Laurie! by Willo Davis Roberts takes about 3 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 166 pages, about 45,650 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Don't Hurt Laurie is Willo Davis Roberts' story of a girl physically abused by her mother. Can she escape, and will anyone believe her story?" After her mother, prone to fits of anger, remarries, Laurie, a battered child, is aided by her new nine-year-old stepbrother in finding the help that she so badly needs.
Subjects: Child abuse, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Child abuse, fiction, Parent and child, fiction
