How long does it take to read Shoeshine Girl?
Clyde Robert Bulla, Jim Burke, Houghton Mifflin, Reading
Shoeshine Girl by Clyde Robert Bulla, Jim Burke, Houghton Mifflin, Reading takes about 1 hour 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 36 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1900. 87 pages, about 23,925 words. Written for children.
4 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 40 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoe shine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes.
Subjects: Fiction, Shoe shiners, Friendship, Behavior, Children's fiction, Girls, fiction
