How long does it take to read The Marrow Thieves?
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline takes about 4 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2017. 234 pages, about 64,350 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 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and with it the dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a fifteen-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones and take refuge from the "recruiters" who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing "factories."
Subjects: Young adult fiction, Indians of North America, Bone marrow, Global warming, Fiction, Science fiction
