It takes the average reader and 25 minutes to read The Hitchhiking Kid by Ronnie Ray Jenkins
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This short story captures the innocence of youth when a nine-year-old boy in 1966 decides to hitchhike for the first time. Narrated in his voice, the boy realizes he has broken his father's stern rule, but bargains for a lot more when he is picked up by a man with a prison past. Captivating, literary, and recommended for adult, and young adult reading. It will keep you on the seat of an old Chrysler riding shotgun inches from a man you know little about. A lesson to be learned.
The Hitchhiking Kid by Ronnie Ray Jenkins is 25 pages long, and a total of 6,375 words.
This makes it 8% the length of the average book. It also has 8% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 34 minutes to read The Hitchhiking Kid aloud.
The Hitchhiking Kid is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
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