It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read Others Had It Worse by Vetra Melrose Padget Covert
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Covert had recorded her younger life in rural Iowa between 1920 and 1929. Writing about herself from the ages of four to thirteen, Vetra Covert sent a simple message back to her grandson: “That’s just the way it was. Others had it worse. We got by.” Captivated by this glimpse of a woman very different...
Others Had It Worse by Vetra Melrose Padget Covert is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.
This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read Others Had It Worse aloud.
Others Had It Worse is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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