How long does it take to read The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp?
The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp by Barry Denenberg takes about 2 hours 52 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 52 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1999. 156 pages, about 42,900 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 46 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 52 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 47 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Twelve-year-old Ben Uchida keeps a journal of his experiences as a prisoner in a Japanese internment camp in Mirror Lake, California, during World War II.
Subjects: Japanese Americans, Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Japanese americans, fiction
