How long does it take to read Gathering Blue?
Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry takes about 4 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 1 minute
A weekend read
First published 2000. 219 pages, about 60,225 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 42 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 36 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
Subjects: Fiction, Ficción juvenil, Impedidos, Orphans, People with disabilities, Artists
