How long does it take to read Kirsten Saves the Day?
Kirsten Saves the Day by Janet Shaw takes about 1 hour 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 14 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1988. 67 pages, about 18,425 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 3 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 46 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Ten-year-old Kirsten is proud and excited when she finds a bee tree full of honey, one of the natural treasures of her Minnesota frontier world, but she exposes herself to great danger by trying to harvest the honey by herself.
Subjects: Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Juvenile fiction, Bee hunting, Swedish Americans, Children's fiction
