How Long to Read Orphan Trains

By Stephen O'Connor

How Long Does it Take to Read Orphan Trains?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 4 minutes to read Orphan Trains by Stephen O'Connor

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

Description

In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography of Brace with firsthand accounts of orphans, Stephen O'Connor here tells of the orphan trains that, between 1854 and 1929, spirited away...

How long is Orphan Trains?

Orphan Trains by Stephen O'Connor is 362 pages long, and a total of 91,224 words.

This makes it 122% the length of the average book. It also has 111% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Orphan Trains Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 18 minutes to read Orphan Trains aloud.

What Reading Level is Orphan Trains?

Orphan Trains 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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