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Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth
by Richard Wright
Page count, estimated reading time and reading quiz: everything to know before you start Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth, and the Vread challenge to get to the end.
- Pages
- 491
- Reading time
- ≈ 8 h 50 min
- Checkpoints
- 14
- Genre
- Young adult
Free on iPhone and Android.
How long does it take to read Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth?
At 491 pages, Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth is a fairly long book. Expect about 8 hours 50 minutes of reading to finish it, based on 250 words per page and an average reading speed of 230 words per minute. A fast reader will go quicker; a careful read (or reading in a second language) will take longer.
At 30 minutes a day, that is about 18 days of reading. At the median pace of Vread readers, 72 pages per reading day, it takes 7 reading days. For a book of this length (400 to 599 pages), Vread readers who finish it take a median of 5.3 days between the first and the last checkpoint (Vread Reading Barometer 2026).
- 30 minutes a day18 days
- Vread median pace (72 pp./day)7 days
Estimates; see the method at the bottom of the page.
Prove you read it
The Vread challenge: 14 checkpoints
- Checkpoint 1, page 35
- Checkpoint 2, page 70
- Checkpoint 3, page 105
- Checkpoint 4, page 140
- Checkpoint 5, page 175
- Checkpoint 6, page 210
- Checkpoint 7, page 246
- Checkpoint 8, page 281
- Checkpoint 9, page 316
- Checkpoint 10, page 351
- Checkpoint 11, page 386
- Checkpoint 12, page 421
- Checkpoint 13, page 456
- Checkpoint 14, page 491
In Vread, Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth is split into 14 checkpoints, one every 35 pages or so. At each checkpoint, a question covers the passage you have just read: a correct answer validates the step, and your progress moves forward like a training plan.
The challenge: validate all 14 checkpoints through to the last page. No giant quiz at the end, no summary to copy out: short questions along the way that prove the book was actually read. It also works as a reading quiz to check your understanding before a test.
Also available in French on Vread.
Illustrative example
What a checkpoint looks like
A short, precise question about the pages you have just read: a character, a place, a choice.
The answer is in the text: reply in the app.
This is not a question from Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth: to avoid spoilers, the real questions stay in the app.
Answer in the app, one checkpoint at a time.
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