It takes the average reader 2 hours and 53 minutes to read Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio by Margo Porras & Sandra Porras
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
La Colonia is half a square mile of land separated from the rest of Oxnard by the railroad tracks and home to the people who keep an agricultural empire running. In decades past, milpas of corn and squash grew in tiny front yards, kids played in the alleys and neighbors ran tortillerias out of their homes. Back then, it was the place to get the best raspadas on Earth. It was a home to Cesar Chavez and a campaign stop for presidential candidate Robert Kennedy. As one Colonia native put it, "We may not have had what the other kids had, but we were just as rich." Through the voices of the...
Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio by Margo Porras & Sandra Porras is 168 pages long, and a total of 43,344 words.
This makes it 57% the length of the average book. It also has 53% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 56 minutes to read Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio aloud.
Growing Up in La Colonia: Boomer memories from Oxnard’s barrio is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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