How long does it take to read The Great Railroad Race?
the Diary of Libby West (Dear America)
The Great Railroad Race by Kristiana Gregory takes about 3 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 43 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 203 pages, about 55,825 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 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 43 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
As the daughter of a newspaper reporter, fourteen-year-old Libby keeps a diary account of the exciting events surrounding her during the building of the Transcontinental Railroad in the West in 1868.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Diaries, Frontier and pioneer life in fiction, Diaries in fiction
