It takes the average reader 5 hours and 59 minutes to read Placed Out: Children of the Train by Janet Elder
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
"All aboard!" Grand Central Terminal, New York City, the late 1880s. An Irish boy and three German sisters are among those put on an "orphan train" headed West. Like thousands of impoverished immigrant children before them, they will be "placed out" along the way: given to strangers, farm couples who agree to foster them until age eighteen. Because siblings are routinely separated by placing them out at different train stops, the quartet's lives inevitably diverge. They unfold in dramatic and unexpected ways as the orphan train riders grow into adulthood in Texas at the dawn of the twentieth...
Placed Out: Children of the Train by Janet Elder is 354 pages long, and a total of 89,916 words.
This makes it 119% the length of the average book. It also has 110% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 11 minutes to read Placed Out: Children of the Train aloud.
Placed Out: Children of the Train is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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