How long does it take to read Mississippi Bridge?
Mississippi Bridge by Mildred D. Taylor takes about 1 hour 8 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 8 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1990. 62 pages, about 17,050 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 54 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 8 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 43 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.
Subjects: Race relations, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Prejudices, African Americans, Historical fiction
