How long does it take to read The Well?
David's Story
The Well by Mildred D. Taylor takes about 1 hour 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 41 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1995. 92 pages, about 25,300 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 49 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 3 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Mississippi in the early 1900s ten-year-old David Logan's family generously shares their well water with both white and black neighbors in an atmosphere of potential racial violence.
Subjects: Fiction, Race relations, Juvenile fiction, Droughts, Prejudices, African Americans
