How long does it take to read Hard Times on the Prairie?
Melissa Peterson, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Hard Times on the Prairie by Melissa Peterson, Laura Ingalls Wilder takes about 1 hour 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 24 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1998. 76 pages, about 20,900 words. Written for children.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 19 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 52 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Laura and her pioneer family struggle against hardships on the Kansas frontier, including a prairie fire, a grasshopper invasion, and a blizzard.
Subjects: Family life, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Juvenile fiction, Children's fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction
