Analysing the books in the series, we estimate that the reading level of The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel is 8th and 9th grade.
Readability Test | Reading Level |
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Flesch Kincaid Scale | Grade 7 |
SMOG Index | Grade 9 |
Coleman Liau Index | Grade 8 |
Dale Chall Readability Score | Grade 5 |
The estimated word count of The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel is 98,735 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 6 hrs 35 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 10 hrs 59 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 3 hrs 40 mins.
The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel - 98,735 words | ||
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Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
Slow | 150 words/min | 10 hrs 59 mins |
Average | 250 words/min | 6 hrs 35 mins |
Fast | 450 words/min | 3 hrs 40 mins |
for The Lions of Fifth Avenue: A Novel
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and national bestseller! “A page-turner for booklovers everywhere! . . . A story of family ties, their lost dreams, and the redemption that comes from discovering truth.”—Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces. It's 1913, and on the surface, Laura Lyons couldn't ask for more out of life—her husband is the superintendent of the New York Public Library, allowing their family to live in an apartment within the grand building, and they are blessed with two children. But headstrong, passionate Laura wants more, and when she takes a leap of faith and applies to the Columbia Journalism School, her world is cracked wide open. As her studies take her all over the city, she is drawn to Greenwich Village's new bohemia, where she discovers the Heterodoxy Club—a radical, all-female group in which women are encouraged to loudly share their opinions on suffrage, birth control, and women's rights. Soon, Laura finds herself questioning her traditional role as wife and mother. But when valuable books are stolen back at the library, threatening the home and institution she loves, she's forced to confront her shifting priorities head on . . . and may just lose everything in the process. Eighty years later, in 1993, Sadie Donovan struggles with the legacy of her grandmother, the famous essayist Laura Lyons, especially after she's wrangled her dream job as a curator at the New York Public Library. But the job quickly becomes a nightmare when rare manuscripts, notes, and books for the exhibit Sadie's running begin disappearing from the library's famous Berg Collection. Determined to save both the exhibit and her career, the typically risk-adverse Sadie teams up with a private security expert to uncover the culprit. However, things unexpectedly become personal when the investigation leads Sadie to some unwelcome truths about her own family heritage—truths that shed new light on the biggest tragedy in the library's history.