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How long does it take to read Canyons?

Gary Paulsen

Canyons by Gary Paulsen takes about 3 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 3 hours 22 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1990. 184 pages, about 50,600 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 37 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 3 hours 22 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 7 minutes

The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

Subjects: Fiction, Apache Indians, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Spirits, Adventure and adventurers

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