How long does it take to read Girl in Blue?
Girl in Blue by Ann Rinaldi takes about 5 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 315 pages, about 86,625 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
To escape an abusive father and an arranged marriage, fourteen-year-old Sarah, dressed as a boy, leaves her Michigan home to enlist in the Union Army, and becomes a soldier on the battlefields of Virginia as well as a Union spy working in the house of Confederate sympathizer Rose O'Neal Greenhow in Washington, D.C.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Spies, Sex role, Fiction, History, Children's fiction
