How long does it take to read Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair?
Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco takes about 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1996. 40 pages, about 11,000 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Aunt Chip saves the town of Triple Creek, where everyone has forgotten how to read because of the invasion of television.
Subjects: Television, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Books and reading, Literacy, Television and reading
