How long does it take to read The Sign of the Beaver?
The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth George Speare takes about 2 hours 29 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 29 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1944. 135 pages, about 37,125 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 | 4 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 46 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Survival skills, Wilderness survival
