How long does it take to read Dust for Dinner?
Dust for Dinner by Ann Turner takes about 1 hour 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 10 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 64 pages, about 17,600 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jake narrates the story of his family's life in the Oklahoma dust bowl and the journey from their ravaged farm to California during the Great Depression.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Farm life, Depressions, Family life, Children's fiction, Depressions, fiction
