How long does it take to read The Birchbark House?
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich takes about 4 hours 28 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
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About 4 hours 28 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 244 pages, about 67,100 words. Written for children.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 27 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 28 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 19 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Louise Erdrich's children's novel is set in 1847 near present-day Lake Superior and follows Omakayas, a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl, through the four seasons of a year. She lives with her parents, her grandmother Nokomis, and her siblings, and her community hunts, gathers, and builds together as each season demands. Omakayas sometimes envies her older sister and finds her younger brother irritating, yet she loves her family. Guided by her grandmother's stories and teachings, she grows more aware of her bond with the natural world and of a gift for dreaming.
This summary was written by AI and checked by a second AI model. How these are chosen.
Subjects: Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Ojibwa Indians, Indians of North America, Islands, Seasons
