How long does it take to read The Corn Grows Ripe?
Dorothy Rhoads
The Corn Grows Ripe by Dorothy Rhoads takes about 1 hour 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 37 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1956. 88 pages, about 24,200 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 41 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 37 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 1 minute |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Tigre, a twelve-year-old Mayan boy living in a modern-day village in Yucatán, must learn to be a man when his father is injured.
Subjects: Indians of Mexico, Juvenile fiction, Mayas, Fiction, Maya children, Corn
