How long does it take to read Land of Hope?
Land of Hope by Joan Lowery Nixon takes about 3 hours 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 8 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 171 pages, about 47,025 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 14 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Russian immigrant Rebekah Levinsky hopes desperately that her dream will come true in America. On the difficult ocean journey to the "land of opportunity" she meets two other girls--Kristin Swensen from Sweden and Rose Carney from Ireland. The three quickly become friends as they share their visions of the future and endure life on the overcrowded ship. Once they reach Ellis Island the girls must separate and Rebekah and her family settle in New York on the Lower East Side. Instead of finding streets paved with gold, they slave seven days a week in a sweatshop. Will Rebekah find the courage to conquer the odds and find happiness in the United States of America?
Subjects: Fiction, Emigration and immigration, Jews, History, Children's fiction, Adolescence, fiction
