How long does it take to read Blue Willow?
Doris Gates
Blue Willow by Doris Gates takes about 3 hours 9 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 9 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1940. 172 pages, about 47,300 words. Written for children.
7 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 9 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 58 minutes |
The page count is the median across 20 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
To Janey Larkin, the blue willow plate was the most beautiful thing in her life, a symbol of the home she could only dimly remember. Now that her father was an itinerant worker, Janey didn't have a home she could call her own or any real friends, as her family had to keep moving, following the crops from farm to farm. Someday, Janey promised the willow plate, with its picture of a real house, her family would once again be able to set down roots in a community. Blue Willow is an important fictional account of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression, and has been called The Grapes of Wrath for children. It won a Newbery Honor and many other awards.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Migrant labor, Poverty, Fiction, The Dust Bowl, The Great Depression
