How long does it take to read The Escape From Home?
The Escape From Home by Avi takes about 5 hours 34 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 1 of Beyond the western sea
Next: Lord Kirkle's Money
About 5 hours 34 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 304 pages, about 83,600 words. Written for children.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 34 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them ogether, the three join forces in a daring scheme that may lead to freedom and glory...or dire consequences.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Emigration and immigration, Runaway teenagers, Runaways in fiction, Emigration and immigration in fiction
