It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In a heart-wrenching, candid autobiography, a human rights activist offers a firsthand account of war from the perspective of a former child soldier, detailing the violent civil war that wracked his native Sierra Leone and the government forces that transformed a gentle young boy into a killer as a member of the army. 75,000 first printing.
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is 229 pages long, and a total of 59,311 words.
This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read A Long Way Gone aloud.
A Long Way Gone is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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