How long does it take to read My Rows and Piles of Coins?
My Rows and Piles of Coins by Tololwa M. Mollel takes about 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 35 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1999. 32 pages, about 8,800 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 | 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 22 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite of all he has saved, he still does not have enough money.
Subjects: Bicycles and bicycling, Fiction, Money, Juvenile fiction, Bicycles, Children's fiction