It takes the average reader 5 hours and 15 minutes to read The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From his Icelandic father Lee Cotton gets his marble skin and blue eyes. From his mixed-race mother he gains his black identity. From his Mambo grandmother he inherits forebodings about his future. It's a combination that sets Lee apart from the other black kids growing up in Eureka, Mississippi. It marks Lee out as slightly odd. And very white. If childhood was confusing, adolescence proves life changing when Lee falls in love with the sublime Angelina. It's also life threatening: Angel's father is a freelance shooter for the Klan, who doesn't take kindly to his daughter's boyfriend. An act...
The Ballad of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson is 307 pages long, and a total of 78,899 words.
This makes it 104% the length of the average book. It also has 96% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 11 minutes to read The Ballad of Lee Cotton aloud.
The Ballad of Lee Cotton is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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