It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read Children of the Kootenays by Shirley D. Stainton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A warm-hearted memoir of a childhood spent living in various mining towns in the Kootenays throughout the 1930s and ’40s. When young Shirley Doris Hall and her family moved to BC’s West Kootenay region in 1927, the area was a hub of mining activity. Shirley’s father, a cook, had no problem finding work at the mining camps, and the family dutifully followed him from town to town as his services were sought after. For Shirley and her brother, Ray—described as both her confidant and her nemesis—mining camps were the backdrop of their youth. The instant close-knit communities that formed around...
Children of the Kootenays by Shirley D. Stainton is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.
This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read Children of the Kootenays aloud.
Children of the Kootenays is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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