How long does it take to read My Name Is Mina?
My Name Is Mina by David Almond takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2010. 300 pages, about 82,500 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Subjects: Home schooling, Families, Eccentrics and eccentricities, Mothers and daughters, Juvenile fiction, Single-parent families
