How long does it take to read Little Town at the Crossroads?
Little Town at the Crossroads by Maria D. Wilkes takes about 3 hours 14 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 14 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 176 pages, about 48,400 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 23 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 14 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Meet Caroline Quiner, the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls' mother. Caroline watches eagerly as new buildings spring up overnight and more and more families move into the growing town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. There are all sorts of new, exciting things for Caroline to do! She marches in her first Independence Day parade, a circus comes to town, and new neighbors become special friends. But then the family has a chance to move to another farm. Will Caroline have to say good-bye to the little town of Brookfield? Little Town at the Crossroads is the second book in an ongoing series about the advantures of another girl from America's favorite pioneer family. - Back cover.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Family, Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Children's fiction
