How long does it take to read These Shallow Graves?
Jennifer Donnelly, Kim Bubbs
These Shallow Graves by Jennifer Donnelly, Kim Bubbs takes about 9 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 1992. 492 pages, about 135,300 words. Written for children.
19 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 15 hours 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 38 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Jo Montfort is beautiful and rich, and soon like all the girls in her class she ll graduate from finishing school and be married off to a wealthy bachelor. Which is the last thing she wants. Jo dreams of becoming a writer a newspaper reporter like the trailblazing Nellie Bly. Wild aspirations aside, Jo s life seems perfect until tragedy strikes.
Subjects: Death, Juvenile fiction, Fathers and daughters, Sex role, Social classes, History
