How long does it take to read Mieko and the Fifth Treasure?
Mieko and the Fifth Treasure by Eleanor Coerr takes about 1 hour 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 25 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1993. 77 pages, about 21,175 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 21 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Staying with her grandparents after the atomic bomb has been dropped on Nagasaki, ten-year-old Mieko feels that the happiness in her heart has departed forever and she will no longer be able to produce a beautiful drawing for the contest at school.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, History, Artists, Schools, Contests
