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How long does it take to read Too Scared to Cry?

Lenore Terr

Too Scared to Cry by Lenore Terr takes about 6 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 6 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1990. 372 pages, about 102,300 words.

14 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 11 hours 22 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 16 minutes

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

About the book

Examines the many ways trauma has affected the children treated by the author, a child psychiatrist, as well as how childhood trauma appears in the works of creative artists such as Edgar Allan Poe, Virginia Woolf, Alfred Hitchcock, and Stephen King. Also shows how child trauma victims can be helped and that there is hope for such innocent victims.

Subjects: Psychic trauma in children, Infant, Psychological Adaptation, Child, Child Psychology, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

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