How long does it take to read The Sign of the Chrysanthemum?
The Sign of the Chrysanthemum by Katherine Paterson takes about 2 hours 25 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 25 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1973. 132 pages, about 36,300 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 2 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 25 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 31 minutes |
The page count is the median across 15 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A teen-ager comes to know himself through contacts with social ills and political unrest while searching for his father in Japan's capital, centuries ago.
Subjects: History, Juvenile fiction, Children's stories, Fiction, Japan, Literatura estadounidense
