How long does it take to read Hope Was Here?
Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer takes about 3 hours 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 37 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2000. 197 pages, about 54,175 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
Subjects: Cancer, Fiction, Practical Politics, Diners (Restaurants), Children's fiction, Adolescence, fiction
