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How long does it take to read Looking for Home?

Arleta Richardson

Looking for Home by Arleta Richardson takes about 2 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 2 hours 35 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1993. 141 pages, about 38,775 words.

6 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 4 hours 19 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 2 hours 35 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 37 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

In 1907, while starting a new life in a Christian orphanage, eight-year-old Ethan and his three younger siblings hear about the prospect of being sent west on an Orphan Train and pray to stay together.

Subjects: Fiction, Orphans, Christian life, Orphan trains

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