How long does it take to read Shutting Out the Sky?
Shutting Out the Sky by Deborah Hopkinson takes about 2 hours 27 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 27 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2003. 134 pages, about 36,850 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 6 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 27 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 32 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Photographs and text document the experiences of five individuals who came to live in the Lower East Side of New York City as children or young adults from Belarus, Italy, Lithuania, and Romania at the turn of the twentieth century.
Subjects: Poor, Staff Authors, Tenement houses, Social conditions, Immigrants, Whitman College
