How long does it take to read The River Between Us?
The River Between Us by Richard Peck takes about 3 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2003. 173 pages, about 47,575 words.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 59 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
During the early days of the Civil War, the Pruitt family takes in two mysterious young ladies who have fled New Orleans to come north to Illinois.
Subjects: United States in fiction, Racially mixed people, Fiction, Family life in fiction, Race relations, Relaciones raciales