How long does it take to read Steal Away?
Steal Away by Jennifer L. Armstrong takes about 3 hours 47 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 47 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 206 pages, about 56,650 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 | 6 hours 18 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 47 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
Subjects: African Americans, Fiction, Fugitive slaves, Grandmothers, Juvenile fiction, Runaway teenagers
