It takes the average reader 3 hours and 23 minutes to read The Red Ribbon by Nancy Freund Bills
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
In the summer of 1994, a freak lightning and thunder storm explodes on the southern coast of Maine, killing Nancy Bills’s husband and critically wounding her younger son. She promises her late husband that she will write their family’s story and bind it with a red ribbon of love and courage. In language alternately tender and gritty, The Red Ribbon documents the aftermath of Bills’s husband’s death. As a wife, she grieves and attempts to rebuild her life; as a mother, she strains to be the parent her young adult sons need. Then, one year later, she is faced with more loss—this time, the...
The Red Ribbon by Nancy Freund Bills is 202 pages long, and a total of 50,904 words.
This makes it 68% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 38 minutes to read The Red Ribbon aloud.
The Red Ribbon is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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