How long does it take to read Journey?
Journey by Patricia MacLachlan takes about 1 hour 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 31 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1990. 83 pages, about 22,825 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Journey is eleven the summer his mother leaves him and his sister, Cat, with their grandparents. He is sad and angry, and spends the summer looking for the clues that will explain why she left.Journey searches photographs for answers. He hunts family resemblances in Grandma's albums. Looking for happier times, he tries to put together the torn pieces of the pictures his mother shredded before her departure. And he also searches the photographs his grandfather takes as the older man attempts to provide Journey with a past. In the process, the boy learns to look and finds that, for him, the camera is a means of finding things his naked eye has missed--things LIKE inevitability of his mother's departure and the love that still binds his family.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Grandparents, Juvenile fiction, Mother and child, Fiction, Madre e hijos, Novela juvenil
