It takes the average reader and 49 minutes to read To Every Thing There Is a Season by Alistair MacLeod
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The story is simple, seen through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy. As an adult he remembers the way things were back home on the farm on the west coast of Cape Breton. The time was the 1940s, but the hens and the cows and the pigs and the sheep and the horse made it seem ancient. The family of six children excitedly waits for Christmas and two-year-old Kenneth, who liked Halloween a lot, asks, “Who are you going to dress up as at Christmas? I think I’ll be a snowman.” They wait especially for their oldest brother, Neil, working on “the Lake boats” in Ontario, who sends intriguing packages of...
To Every Thing There Is a Season by Alistair MacLeod is 48 pages long, and a total of 12,384 words.
This makes it 16% the length of the average book. It also has 15% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 7 minutes to read To Every Thing There Is a Season aloud.
To Every Thing There Is a Season is suitable for students ages 8 and up.
Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.
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