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Book 2 of Little House on the Prairie · 1933

Farmer Boy

by Laura Ingalls Wilder. 372 pages, about 6.8 hours to read. Rated 3.8 out of 5 by 23 Open Library readers.

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How long to read Farmer Boy

At 250 words a minute, the average adult pace, Farmer Boy takes about 6.8 hours. That assumes 275 words a page over 372 pages.

Your paceTime
150 words/min (slow, or reading aloud)11 hours
200 words/min8.5 hours
250 words/min (average)6.8 hours
300 words/min5.7 hours
400 words/min (fast)4.3 hours

In the series

All 9 Little House on the Prairie books in order

Children's fiction · Farm life, fiction · Frontier and pioneer life · Family · Family life · Fiction