How long does it take to read The War That Saved My Life?
The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley takes about 6 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 6 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2015. 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 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nine-year-old Ada has never left her one-room apartment. Her mother is too humiliated by Ada’s twisted foot to let her outside. So when her little brother Jamie is shipped out of London to escape the war, Ada doesn’t waste a minute—she sneaks out to join him. So begins a new adventure of Ada, and for Susan Smith, the woman who is forced to take the two kids in. As Ada teaches herself to ride a pony, learns to read, and watches for German spies, she begins to trust Susan—and Susan begins to love Ada and Jamie. But in the end, will their bond be enough to hold them together through wartime? Or will Ada and her brother fall back into the cruel hands of their mother?
Subjects: YA fiction, abusive parenting, Brothers and sisters, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Evacuation of civilians
