It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read The Year the Gypsies Came by Linzi Glass
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Set in apartheid South Africa, this powerful and lyrically written novel is Linzi Glass's debut. As twelve-year-old Emily Iris explains it, her mother and father have always been eager to take in travelers and vagabonds, relying on the presence of outsiders to ease the tension between them. Emily has her gentle older sister, Sarah, and Buza, the old Zulu nightwatchman, for company and comfort. But her parents' continuing discontent leads them to welcome some peculiar strangers. One spring, a family of wanderers-a wildlife photographer, his wife, and two boys-comes to stay, and their strange,...
The Year the Gypsies Came by Linzi Glass is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read The Year the Gypsies Came aloud.
The Year the Gypsies Came is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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