How long does it take to read By the Shores of Silver Lake?
By the Shores of Silver Lake by Laura Ingalls Wilder takes about 5 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of Little House on the Prairie
Previous: On the Banks of Plum Creek Next: The Long Winter
About 5 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1924. 290 pages, about 79,750 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 62 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Ingalls family had fared badly in Plum Creek, Minnesota. They were in debt. Mary was blind now. So Pa went West to work at a railroad camp in Dakota Territory where he could make as much as fifty dollars a month! Then he sent for his wife and four children, and they became the first settlers in the new town of De Smet. But the railroad brought hordes of land-hungry people from the East. Had Pa waited too long to file his homestead claim? - Back cover.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Fiction, Newbery Honor, Families
