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How long does it take to read The River Between Us?

Richard Peck

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

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