How long does it take to read Leyla?
The Black Tulip
Alev Lytle Croutier
Leyla by Alev Lytle Croutier takes about 3 hours 38 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 38 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 198 pages, about 54,450 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 38 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A children's historical novel from the Girls of Many Lands series by the American Girl company. While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, and then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720s.
Subjects: Harems, Tulips, Slavery, Fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, History
