How long does it take to read If You Come Softly?
If You Come Softly by Jacqueline Woodson takes about 3 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1998. 181 pages, about 49,775 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After meeting at their private school in New York, fifteen-year-old Jeremiah, who is black and whose parents are separated, and Ellie, who is white and whose mother has twice abandoned her, fall in love and then try to cope with people's reactions.
Subjects: African Americans, Family life, Fiction, Interracial dating, Schools, Juvenile fiction
