How long does it take to read Soft Rain?
Cornelia Cornelissen
Soft Rain by Cornelia Cornelissen takes about 2 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 7 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1998. 115 pages, about 31,625 words. Written for children.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In Soft Rain, a 9-year-old Cherokee girl finds herself in the same situation as Sweet Leaf as soldiers arrive one day to take her and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her family behind. It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for the next harvest. Because Soft Rain knows some of the white man's language, she soon learns that they must travel across rivers, valleys, and mountains. On the journey, she is forced to eat the white man's food and sees many of her people die. Her courage and hope are restored when she is reunited with her father, a leader on the Trail, chosen to bring her people safely to their new land.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Cherokee Indians, Fiction, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Relocation, Children's fiction
