How long does it take to read The Island on Bird Street?
Uri Orlev
The Island on Bird Street by Uri Orlev takes about 2 hours 58 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 58 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1984. 162 pages, about 44,550 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 58 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
During World War II a Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.
Subjects: Fiction, Jews, Juvenile fiction, History, Children's fiction, Holocaust survivors, fiction
