It takes the average reader 5 hours and 14 minutes to read Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History by David M. Brown
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At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the school's basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nation's most modern, disintegrated, burying everyone under a vast pile of rubble and debris. More than 300 students and teachers were killed, and hundreds more were injured. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the catastrophe approaches, it...
Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History by David M. Brown is 312 pages long, and a total of 78,624 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 9 minutes to read Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History aloud.
Gone at 3:17: The Untold Story of the Worst School Disaster in American History is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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