How long does it take to read Seeds of Hope?
The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild (Dear America)
Seeds of Hope by Kristiana Gregory takes about 3 hours 19 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 19 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2001. 181 pages, about 49,775 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 32 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 19 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Susanna Fairchild and her family are on board a ship sailing from New York to the West, where they plan to start a new life in Oregon. But tragedy strikes when Susanna's mother is lost to the sea. Hearing stories of great wealth, Susanna's physician father decides he wants to join the hordes of men rushing to California to mine for gold.
Subjects: Gold discoveries, Frontier and pioneer life, Diaries, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Avarice
