It takes the average reader 5 hours and 10 minutes to read The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
New York Times Bestseller: The “miraculous” memoir of an inspiring teacher and the students who changed his life on an impoverished South Carolina island (Newsweek). Though the children of Yamacraw Island live less than two miles from the southern mainland, they can’t name the US president or the ocean that surrounds them. Most can’t read or write. Many of the students are the descendants of slaves, handicapped by poverty and isolation. When Pat Conroy arrives, an eager young teacher at the height of the civil rights movement, he finds a community still bound by the bitter effects of racism,...
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy is 310 pages long, and a total of 77,500 words.
This makes it 105% the length of the average book. It also has 95% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 3 minutes to read The Water Is Wide aloud.
The Water Is Wide is suitable for students ages 12 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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