How Long to Read Baby Heart

How Long Does it Take to Read Baby Heart?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 38 minutes to read Baby Heart by Emily Allen Garland

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Fifteen year- old Baby Heart is in love with Bobby Joe Miller and dead set on becoming a nurse. She is a happy carefree student until her mother is stricken with lung cancer. Baby heart gives up her life to save her mother. The family of sharecroppers cant pay for lifesaving surgery that her mother needs in 1946. Baby Heart pays for it the only way she knows how ----- through marriage to john El Murphy, the man who owns the land her family farms and everything else in White Chalk where they live. John El is controlling and jealous. In a fit of jealous rage, he shoots her in the heart one day when he comes upon her helping strange men whose car is stuck on the muddy road between White Chalk and Marysville. Baby heart survives. With assistance from her brothers, Roosevelt and Lincoln, she escapes to Detroit. This story is about a compassionate teenage girl coming of age in the rural south in the 1940s. She is a survivor who overcomes tremendous odds to fulfill her dreams and help other abused women.

How long is Baby Heart?

Baby Heart by Emily Allen Garland is 328 pages long, and a total of 84,624 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 103% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Baby Heart Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 42 minutes to read Baby Heart aloud.

What Reading Level is Baby Heart?

Baby Heart is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

Where Can I Buy Baby Heart?

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