How long does it take to read Silver on the Tree?
Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Book 5 of The Dark Is Rising Sequence
Previous: The Grey King
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1977. 288 pages, about 79,200 words. Written for children.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 30 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Dark is rising in its last and greatest bid to control the world. And Will Stanton -- last-born of the immortal Old Ones, dedicated to keeping the world free -- must join forces with this ageless master Merriman and Bran, the Welsh boy whose destiny ties him to the Light. Drawn in with them are the three Drew children, who are mortal, but have their own vital part in the story. These six fight fear and death in the darkly brooding Welsh hills, in a quest through time and space that touches the most ancient myths of the British Isles, and that brings Susan Cooper's masterful sequence of novels to a satisfying close.
Subjects: Fantasy, Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Space and time, Children's fiction, Fantasy fiction
