How long does it take to read Mermaids?
Patty Dann
Mermaids by Patty Dann takes about 2 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 47 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1967. 152 pages, about 41,800 words. Written for young adults.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 39 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 45 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Follows the escapades and odyssey of Charlotte Flax, a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl who yearns to become a saint and who falls in love with the shy young caretaker of a neighborhood convent in her sleepy 1960s Massachusetts town.
Subjects: Fiction, Mothers and daughters, Teenage girls, Fiction, family life, general, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Massachusetts, fiction
