How long does it take to read The Learning Tree?
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks takes about 5 hours 33 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 33 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1963. 303 pages, about 83,325 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 33 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 28 minutes |
The page count is the median across 9 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Autobiographical novel about a boy entering his teens in a racially segregated Kansas town in the 1920s.
Subjects: African American families, Fiction, African Americans, Civil rights, Murder, Fiction, general
