Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of Across the Winding River is 7th and 8th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 5 |
SMOG Index | Grade 8 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 7 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 6 |
The estimated word count of Across the Winding River is 82,615 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 5 hrs 31 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 9 hrs 11 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 4 mins.
Across the Winding River - 82,615 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 9 hrs 11 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 5 hrs 31 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 4 mins |
for Across the Winding River
A woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max. His only request of his daughter is to go through the long-forgotten box of memorabilia from his days as a medic on the western front. Then, among his wartime souvenirs, Beth finds a photograph of her father with an adoring and beautiful stranger—a photograph worth a thousand questions.It was 1944 when Max was drawn into the underground resistance by the fearless German wife of a Nazi officer. Together, she and Max were willing to risk everything for what they believed was right. Ahead of them lay a dangerous romance, a dream of escape, and a destiny over which neither had control.But Max isn’t alone in his haunting remembrances of war. In a nearby private care home is a fragile German-born woman with her own past to share. Only when the two women meet does Beth realize how much more to her father there is to know, all the ways in which his heart still breaks, and the closure he needs to heal it.