How long does it take to read I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly?
The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 (Dear America)
I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly by Joyce Hansen takes about 3 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 208 pages, about 57,200 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 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 23 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The two-time Coretta Scott King Honor Book recipient offers a poignant narrative about a freed slave girl during the Reconstruction Era in the South.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, History, African Americans, Diaries, United States in fiction
