How long does it take to read Freedom's Price?
Michaela MacColl
Freedom's Price by Michaela MacColl takes about 4 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 5 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2015. 223 pages, about 61,325 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Dred Scott's daughter learns what it means to pay the price of freedom ... Eleven-year-old Eliza Scott has a lot to live for. She and her family will soon be free. She is learning to read and write at a secret school. And she has a new friend she can share her dreams with. But when Eliza is confronted by vicious slave catchers, the spread of cholera, and a devastating fire, she is forced to come to terms with what it really takes to be on her own. Will she ever be able to fulfill her childhood dreams? Michaela MacColl and Rosemary Nichols delve deep into the history of the Dred Scott decision and pre-Civil War America to tell Eliza Scott's riveting coming of age story. Freedom's Price is the second in the HIdden Histories series about children and little known events in American history"--Jacket.
Subjects: Families, Slaves, Family, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Historical fiction
