How long does it take to read Migrant?
Migrant by Maxine Trottier takes about 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 44 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2011. 40 pages, about 11,000 words. Written for children.
2 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 1 hour 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Anna, the daughter of migrant farm workers, sometimes feels like a bird, flying north in the spring and south in the fall, sometimes like a jackrabbit in an abandoned burrow. But above all Anna wonders what it would be like to be a tree rooted deeply in the earth, watching the seasons come and go, instead of being like a "feather in the wind." Anna, the child of Mennonites from Mexico who travel to harvest fruit and vegetables, compares herself to animals that share some of her behaviors and wonders what it would be like to be a tree with deep roots instead of a feather in the wind.
Subjects: Mennonites, Juvenile fiction, Migrant labor, Migrant agricultural laborers, Foreign workers, Fiction
