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How long does it take to read On the Banks of Plum Creek?

Laura Ingalls Wilder

On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder takes about 6 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 4 of Little House on the Prairie

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About 6 hours 12 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1937. 338 pages, about 92,950 words. Written for children.

13 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 10 hours 20 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 6 hours 12 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 52 minutes

The page count is the median across 82 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.

Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Family life, Families, Family

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