How long does it take to read Richard Wright and the Library Card?
William Miller, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrated by Gregory Christie
Richard Wright and the Library Card by William Miller, R. Gregory Christie, Illustrated by Gregory Christie takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1997. 32 pages, about 8,800 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Based on a scene from Wright's autobiography, Black boy, in which the seventeen-year-old African-American borrows a white man's library card and devours every book as a ticket to freedom.
Subjects: African Americans, Afronorteamericanos, Bibliotecas, Books and reading, Ficción juvenil, Fiction
