962 minutes + 180 minutes =

1142 minutes

Some Friend by Marie Bradby.

Pearl is so busy trying to make friends with the mean popular girl that she can't see the real, albeit raggedy friend in front of her, until it is too late.

At this point, no more capacity for critical analysis. Instinct tells me it was ok, nothing special. It was local, however- apparently Glen Echo park was segregated in 1963 but the National Zoo wasn't (though how you'd enforce that in a park you essentially walk through at your leisure I don't know.)

So final counts (I'm turning in for the night!)

10 Books
1502 pages
1142 minutes, which comes out to about 19 hours 2 minutes