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How long does it take to read Jumping the Nail?

Eve Bunting

Jumping the Nail by Eve Bunting takes about 3 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 9 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1991. 172 pages, about 47,300 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 15 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 9 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 58 minutes

The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Summary:When a group of teenagers in a coastal California community challenge each other to "Jump the Nail" - leap from dangerous cliffs into the ocean-group pressure and manipulative relationships quickly drive the game out of control.

Subjects: Peer pressure, Fiction, Children's fiction, California, fiction, Peer pressure, fiction, Adolescence, fiction

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