How long does it take to read Mr. Tucket?
Mr. Tucket by Gary Paulsen takes about 3 hours 3 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Mr. Tucket Saga
Next: Call Me Francis Tucket
About 3 hours 3 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1969. 166 pages, about 45,650 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 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 3 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 54 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be called Mr. Tucket.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Pawnee Indians, Overland journeys to the Pacific
