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How long does it take to read Little Town on the Prairie?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder takes about 5 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 7 of Little House on the Prairie

Previous: The Long Winter Next: These Happy Golden Years

About 5 hours 36 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1941. 305 pages, about 83,875 words. Written for children.

12 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 9 hours 19 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 5 hours 36 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 30 minutes

The page count is the median across 58 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Pa's homestead thrives, Laura gets her first job in town, blackbirds eat the corn and oats crops, Mary goes to college, and Laura gets into trouble at school, but becomes a certified school teacher.

Subjects: Families, Frontier and pioneer life, Family, Juvenile fiction, Family life, Fiction

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