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How long does it take to read Nobody's Family Is Going to Change?

Louise Fitzhugh

Nobody's Family Is Going to Change by Louise Fitzhugh takes about 4 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 3 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1974. 221 pages, about 60,775 words. Written for children.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 6 hours 45 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 3 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 32 minutes

The page count is the median across 16 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Through a series of family disagreements over her seven-year-old brother's efforts to become a dancer and her own determination to be a lawyer, eleven-year-old Emma realizes that it is up to children to take the initiative since parents rarely change.

Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Family life, Family, Fiction, Children's stories, Children's fiction

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