It takes the average reader 3 hours and 13 minutes to read The Dog Who Came to Stay by Hal Borland
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The national bestselling memoir of a friendship between a New England outdoorsman and the scrawny foxhound who came to his door one snowy day. In the midst of a blizzard, late one Christmas night in the 1950s, author Hal Borland heard a howl at the back door of his home on a hundred-acre farm in the Housatonic Valley of northwest Connecticut. Resistant at first, he called around trying to find an owner whose dog had gone missing—with no luck. Finally, with the encouragement of his wife and haunted by memories of his childhood collie, Borland brought some scraps of leftover steak outside. This...
The Dog Who Came to Stay by Hal Borland is 192 pages long, and a total of 48,384 words.
This makes it 65% the length of the average book. It also has 59% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 24 minutes to read The Dog Who Came to Stay aloud.
The Dog Who Came to Stay is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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