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Love That Dog by the numbers

Sharon Creech · first published 2001 · dataset 2026-07-21

Length and reading time

At 92 pages, Love That Dog is longer than 23.1% of the 1,664 books on the reading lists we track. It is shorter than the median book listed for grades 6-8 (223 pages).

Word counts and reading times are estimates: pages × 275 words, divided by the reading speed. Your edition's page count and your own pace will differ.

Where Love That Dog is on school reading lists

5 appearances (0.0% of all 13,258 listings in the dataset), drawn from 1 published list, in grades 4th–8th. 5 of the 5 carry a link to the published source document.

States (1): Maine.

Sources

• Maine Student Book Award — Maine's statewide children's-choice reading program (grades 4-8): students read the annual nominees and vote for their favorite. Winner list verified from the award's published record. · checked 2026-07-07

Questions

How many pages is Love That Dog?

Love That Dog by Sharon Creech is 92 pages in the edition recorded in our dataset. Page counts vary by edition and format; at about 275 words per page that is roughly 25,000 words.

How long does it take to read Love That Dog?

About 1 h 41 min at an average adult pace of 250 words per minute (1 h 24 min at 300 wpm, 2 h 7 min at 200 wpm). At 20 minutes a day that is about 6 days.

Is Love That Dog on school reading lists?

Yes. It appears 5 times on the U.S. school reading lists, award lists and curricula in our dataset, in 1 state, most often in grades 6-8. That ranks it #1,016 of 1,664 listed books.

Related

• Love That Dog: reading level, grades and similar booksOn ReadingList, our sister site for school reading lists.
• Books of about the same lengthFourth Grade Rats (90 pp.) · The Whipping Boy (96 pp.) · Heart of Darkness (96 pp.) · The Pearl (96 pp.)
• The most assigned books, rankedAll 1,664 listed books start here.
• Book length statisticsHow long assigned books are, by grade.

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