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How long does it take to read The School for Dangerous Girls?

Eliot Schrefer

The School for Dangerous Girls by Eliot Schrefer takes about 6 hours 15 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 15 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2009. 341 pages, about 93,775 words. Written for children.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 25 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 15 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 54 minutes

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Sent to a remote, run-down reform school in Colorado, fifteen-year-old Angela is placed with the better girls, but upon learning that her "dangerous" friends are being isolated and left to live as animals, she takes radical steps to join them and help them escape.

Subjects: Child abuse, Family problems, Fiction, Schools, Reformatories, Juvenile delinquents

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