How long does it take to read The Night Crossing?
Karen Ackerman, Elizabeth Sayles
The Night Crossing by Karen Ackerman, Elizabeth Sayles takes about 1 hour 2 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 2 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1994. 56 pages, about 15,400 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 2 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 39 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In 1938, having begun to feel the persecution that all Jews are experiencing in their Austrian city, Clara and her family escape over the mountains into Switzerland.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Jews, Fiction, Jews, fiction
