How long does it take to read Leon's Story?
Leon's Story by Leon Walter Tillage takes about 1 hour 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 58 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1997. 107 pages, about 29,425 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 | 3 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
Subjects: Biography, Race relations, African Americans, History, Civil rights movements, Childhood and youth
