How long does it take to read I Am Not a Number?
Jenny Kay Dupuis, Kathy Kacer, Kacer Kathy, Gillian Newland, Muriel Sawyer, Geraldine McLeod, Isabelle Allard
I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis, Kathy Kacer, Kacer Kathy, Gillian Newland, Muriel Sawyer, Geraldine McLeod, Isabelle Allard takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2016. 32 pages, about 8,800 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from, despite the efforts of the nuns who are in charge at the school and who tell her that she is not to use her own name but instead use the number they have assigned to her. When she goes home for summer holidays, Irene's parents decide never to send her and her brothers away again. But where will they hide? And what will happen when her parents disobey the law? Based on the life of co-author Jenny Kay Dupuis’ grandmother, I Am Not a Number is a hugely necessary book that brings a terrible part of Canada’s history to light in a way that children can learn from and relate to.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Off-reservation boarding schools, Residential schools, Indigenous peoples, Children's fiction, Canada, fiction
