It takes the average reader 4 hours and 40 minutes to read Meteors in August by Melanie Rae Thon
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Charged by lyrical prose and vivid evocations of a more-than-human world, Meteors in August proves itself a magnificent debut, a tale of despair and salvation in all their many forms Lizzie Macon is seven when her father drives a Native American named Red Elk out of their valley and comes home with blood on his clothes. The following year, her older sister, Nina, cuts her head from every family photograph and runs away with Red Elk’s son and their unborn child. Nina’s actions have consequences no one could have predicted: jittery reverberations of violence throughout the isolated northern...
Meteors in August by Melanie Rae Thon is 275 pages long, and a total of 70,125 words.
This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 23 minutes to read Meteors in August aloud.
Meteors in August is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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