How long does it take to read Paper Wishes?
Lois Sepahban
Paper Wishes by Lois Sepahban takes about 3 hours 31 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 31 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2016. 192 pages, about 52,800 words. Written for children.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Near the start of World War II, young Manami, her parents, and Grandfather are evacuated from their home and sent to Manzanar, an ugly, dreary internment camp in the desert for Japanese-American citizens.
Subjects: Manzanar War Relocation Center, Japanese Americans, Selective mutism, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction
