How long does it take to read The War Outside?
The War Outside by Monica Hesse takes about 6 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2018. 328 pages, about 90,200 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 1 minute |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Teens Haruko, a Japanese American, and Margot, a German American, form a life-changing friendship as everything around them starts falling apart in the Crystal City family internment camp during World War II.
Subjects: German Americans, Juvenile fiction, Friendship, Japanese Americans, Asian American, Fiction
