How long does it take to read One Child?
Torey L. Hayden, ToreyL Hayden
One Child by Torey L. Hayden, ToreyL Hayden takes about 4 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 36 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1980. 251 pages, about 69,025 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Hayden recounts her battle to uncover the keen intelligence and touch the emotions of a troubled, sexually molested six-year-old girl who abused a younger child and was placed in her class for retarded preadolescents while awaiting space in a state institution.
Subjects: Case studies, Child psychopathology, Child abuse, Education, Problem children, Abused children