How long does it take to read Silver People?
Silver People by Margarita Engle takes about 4 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 53 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2014. 266 pages, about 73,150 words. Written for children.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fourteen-year-old Mateo and other Caribbean islanders face discrimination, segregation, and harsh working conditions when American recruiters lure them to the Panamanian rain forest in 1906 to build the great canal.
Subjects: Segregation, Juvenile fiction, History, Rain forests, Racism, Novels in verse
