How long does it take to read Inside Out & Back Again?
Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai takes about 5 hours 4 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 4 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2011. 276 pages, about 75,900 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 26 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 4 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Inside Out & Back Again is a verse novel by Thanhha Lai. The book was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and one of the two Newbery Honors. The novel was based on her first year in the United States, as a ten-year-old girl who spoke no English in 1975.
Subjects: Verse novels, Vietnam War, North Vietnamese Army, Juvenile fiction, stories in verse, people & places
