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How long does it take to read The Body Finder?

Kimberly Derting

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting takes about 5 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 5 hours 12 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2010. 284 pages, about 78,100 words. Written for children.

11 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 12 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 15 minutes

The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.

Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile Fiction, Psychic ability, Children's fiction, Schools, fiction, Washington (state), fiction

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