How long does it take to read Freedom Writers' Diary?
Freedom Writers
Freedom Writers' Diary by Freedom Writers takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Freedom Writers' Diary is a non-fiction work compiled from journal entries by students of a Long Beach, California, high school, together with their English teacher, Erin Gruwell. She is a young, idealistic teacher facing a class labeled at-risk. After a racist drawing circulates, she learns her students know almost nothing about the Holocaust. She has them read Anne Frank's diary and Zlata Filipović's account of life in Sarajevo, then write about their own troubled pasts, presents and futures. The students name themselves after the civil rights Freedom Riders and use writing to confront intolerance.
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