It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back by Ernie López
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie’s sense of necessity got tangled up with ambition and adventure. At thirteen, a joyride in a stolen car led to a sentence in California’s harshest juvenile reformatory. The system’s failure to show any mercy soon propelled López into a cycle of crime and incarceration that resulted in his spending decades in...
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back by Ernie López is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.
This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back aloud.
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back 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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