How long does it take to read Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons?
the story of Phillis Wheatley
Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1996. 336 pages, about 92,400 words. Written for children.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A fictionalized biography of the eighteenth-century African woman who, as a child, was brought to New England to be a slave, and after publishing her first poem when a teenager, gained renown throughout the colonies as an important black American poet.
Subjects: Fiction, Poets, Juvenile fiction, Slaves, African Americans, Women poets
