How long does it take to read Swing?
Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess
Swing by Kwame Alexander, Mary Rand Hess takes about 8 hours 13 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 13 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2018. 448 pages, about 123,200 words. Written for young adults.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 13 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 8 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Things usually do not go as planned for seventeen-year-old Noah. He and his best friend Walt have just been cut from the high school baseball team for the third year in a row, and it looks like Noah's love interest since fifth grade, Samantha, will never take it past the "best friend" zone.
Subjects: Attitude (Psychology), Letters, School sports, Baseball stories, Teenagers, Fiction
