How long does it take to read From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun?
From the Notebooks of Melanin Sun by Jacqueline Woodson takes about 2 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 141 pages, about 38,775 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 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Melanin Sun has a lot to say. But sometimes it's hard to speak his mind, so he fills up notebooks with his thoughts instead. He writes about his mom a lotu they're about as close as they can be, because they have no other family. So when she suddenly tells him she's gay, his world is turned upside down. And if that weren't hard enough for him to accept, her girlfriend is white. Melanin Sun is angry and scared. How can his mom do this to himuis this the end of their closeness? What will his friends think? And can he let her girlfriend be part of their family?
Subjects: African Americans, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Lesbians, Mothers and sons, Lesbian mothers
