It takes the average reader 1 hour and 5 minutes to read The Manzanar Scrapbook by Story Shares
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A safe gets burglarized. Valuable jewelry is stolen, along with a scrapbook that contains an old man's memories as a boy in a Japanese-American internment camp during World War II. Four teenage members of a band (The People Movers) investigate the case. Along the way, they learn about honor, courage, and the reach of history. What they discover brings them face to face with an eighty-year-old murder and the betrayal of a lifelong friendship. This book in one in a growing collection of Relevant Reads, stories that are "easy to read and hard to put down." This new genre of literature is intended to improve teen and young adult literacy by providing compelling yet approachable books as tools for learning. 100% of proceeds from the sale of these books go directly towards crowd-sourcing and distributing new Relevant Reads.
The Manzanar Scrapbook by Story Shares is 64 pages long, and a total of 16,256 words.
This makes it 22% the length of the average book. It also has 20% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 28 minutes to read The Manzanar Scrapbook aloud.
The Manzanar Scrapbook is suitable for students ages 8 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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