It takes the average reader 9 hours and 40 minutes to read Farewell Gift by Bettye Hammer Givens
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In Virginia, Mancie is forced to leave Joseph the man she wants to marry. She is placed onto the emigrant train, headed for Plainview, Texas. Grieving, Mancie sews a piece of Joseph's shirt into her pillow. Then she meets the handsome Abbe who helps her understand the new country. The family deals with rattlesnakes, dust storms and a hailed-out wheat crop, Small Willa Ruth falls from the windmill tower and is taken up dead. When they go back to Virginia Mancie becomes involved with Joseph. Her unwanted pregnancies are the most devastating. Hidden away in a cellar. Mancie seeks control and begins again by accepting her gifts.
Farewell Gift by Bettye Hammer Givens is 580 pages long, and a total of 145,000 words.
This makes it 196% the length of the average book. It also has 177% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 13 hours and 12 minutes to read Farewell Gift aloud.
Farewell Gift 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.
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