How long does it take to read Skylark?
Skylark by Patricia MacLachlan takes about 1 hour 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Sarah, Plain and Tall series, of the Witting family
Previous: Sarah, Plain and Tall Next: Caleb's Story
About 1 hour 42 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1994. 93 pages, about 25,575 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 51 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 4 minutes |
The page count is the median across 18 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
*My mother, Sarah, doesn't love the prairie. She tries, but she can't help remembering what she knew first.* Sarah came to the prairie from Maine to marry Papa. But that summer, a drought turned the land dry and brown. Fires swept across the fields and coyotes came to the well in search of water. So Sarah took Anna and Caleb back east, where they would be safe. Papa stayed behind. He would not leave his land. Maine was beautiful, but Anna missed home, and Papa. And as the weeks went by, she began to wonder what would happen if the rains never came. Would she and Caleb and Sarah and Papa ever be a family again? 2nd in the Sarah, Plain and Tall series.
Subjects: Children's fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Fiction, Droughts, Stepmothers
