How long does it take to read Meet Kirsten?
Meet Kirsten by Janet Shaw takes about 1 hour 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 7 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1986. 61 pages, about 16,775 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 | 1 hour 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Nine-year-old Kirsten and her family experience many hardships as they travel from Sweden to the Minnesota frontier in 1854.
Subjects: Nineteenth century, Frontier and pioneer life, Kirsten Larson (Fictitious character), Children of immigrants, Nine-year-old girls, Fiction
